As everyone knows, some sounds are pleasing, and others are not. Chalk drawn across a blackboard can send chills down the spine automatically; canned "muzak" evokes a mood that makes many shoppers ...

It’s doubtful that modern psychology would exist—at least in its present form—without William James. James is often referred to as the “founding father” of American psychology. As well as offering the ...

Did you know that investors prefer IPO stocks with pronounceable company names as opposed to unpronounceable names? They even prefer the pronounceable stocks even over a long term basis of six months ...

CHENNAI: Mind is a delegation from supermind, which primarily regards existence as an object fronting its vision. Mental being also need not regard the universe as quite separate from or outside its ...

A new study shows that subconscious signals interfere with concentration, causing people to become easily distracted and falter on even the simplest of tasks. When people concentrate, they focus on ...

Many great discoveries have emerged from the "twilight" state between wakefulness and sleep. It's possible to use this state ...

Most of us have experienced the hairs on the back of our necks rising when instinct tells us something isn’t right. Or found ourselves unaccountably attracted to a stranger for no obvious reason.

The Beatles’ song Yesterday was written in what psychologists refer to as the “hypnagogic state”. This is the twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness, when we drowsily linger in a semi-conscious ...