At first glance, it may be tempting to assume that, when it comes to education, presenting students with more material in a shorter period of time should naturally lead to more learning. Recent ...

Complex problem solving (CPS) represents an essential dimension of contemporary education, capturing the multifaceted cognitive and metacognitive processes that underpin effective learning in ...

New research suggests that the distinctive cognitive traits associated with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD ...

Female zebra finches at the University of Wyoming’s Animal Behavior and Cognition Lab were subjects of a new study on bird personality. (Lisa Barrett Photo) Personality is not unique to humans. New ...

This psychology-based problem-solving quiz reveals whether you solve problems through logical analysis, gut instinct, emotional intelligence or strategic manipulation.

For many years, the idea that “sleeping on it” would provide an individual with some time in which their subconscious mind would work through a problem or problems has generally been accepted as ...

Laursen, B.K. 2018. What is collaborative, interdisciplinary reasoning? The heard of interdisciplinary team research. Informing Science: The International Journal of ...

That is the offer Rick van Pelt, M.D., and his team in Clinical Practice Transformation (CPT) make to units across UAB Hospital. CPT serves as a kind of internal consulting group, part of the ...

Whether we identify a problem that inspires us or are given a problem to solve, how creative our work on it will be depends on how we think about it. What aspects of the problem can we focus on? How ...

We all have problems—it’s an inevitable part of being alive. But sometimes, when we’re trying to focus our energies on solving these problems, we may actually be doing something far less productive: ...