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In a classic experiment, people preferred to repeat 90 seconds of painfully cold water rather than 60 seconds of the same pain because the longer trial ended just one degree warmer, revealing that memory often judges an experience by its worst moment and its ending rather than by how long it lasted

July 16, 2026

There is the pain a person lives through, and then there is the pain their memory files away for later. The unsettling part of the classic cold-water experiment is that those two versions

The EU says Instagram and Facebook’s addictive design likely breaks its rules — and it wants autoplay and infinite scroll off by default

July 16, 2026

The European Commission said on 10 July that the design of Instagram and Facebook probably breaks European law, in a preliminary finding that Meta did not do enough to keep its platforms from

Most of what you do all day runs on habit, not choice — but a new study found the habits are usually working for you, not against you

July 16, 2026

You woke up this morning and, somewhere between the alarm and the front door, made a few dozen small decisions you will never remember making. Which foot hit the floor. Coffee before the

Eye Security, founded by former Dutch intelligence-service employees, raised €60 million to build a “sovereign” European cyber defense — and two of its backers are American

July 16, 2026

Eye Security, a cybersecurity company based in The Hague, said on June 30 that it had raised €60 million in a Series C round led by the Belgian investment firm Sofina, which took

First Dutch quantum computer comes with message for The Hague

July 16, 2026

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Psychology suggests we don’t reason toward truth so much as defend what we already believe: we seek out the facts that confirm us and quietly wave away the rest — the ‘confirmation bias’ baked into how we think

July 16, 2026

In 1998, a Tufts psychologist named Raymond Nickerson published a long review article pulling together decades of scattered experiments under one heading. The title called confirmation bias a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises.

Finland, a country long invaded and overshadowed by its neighbors, built the most trusted education system in the world by doing almost the exact opposite of what everyone else believed worked

July 15, 2026

Finland did build one of the world’s most admired education systems around trust rather than constant inspection, competition and high-stakes testing. It did not, however, win an objective global title for the “most

Psychology suggests memory is not a recording but a story we rebuild each time: in one experiment, a quarter of people came to ‘remember’ being lost in a mall as a child — an event that never happened

July 15, 2026

Picture a memory you are sure of. Not a fuzzy one, a solid one. Say a childhood scene where you got separated from your parents in a big shop, felt that cold drop

Chasing happiness can be the thing that scares it off: research suggests those who prize being happy above all else often end up lonelier and less content

July 15, 2026

What follows is reading and reflection on published psychology research, not advice. We are writers, not psychologists or therapists. The studies here are observational and experimental work on group averages, and a pattern

Psychology says one cruel remark can drown out many kind ones: across love, money, learning and memory, bad consistently hits harder than good — a survival instinct wired deep into the human mind

July 15, 2026

Give someone five compliments and one insult in the same afternoon, and the insult is what they carry home. This lopsidedness seems like a glitch in the wiring. It is not. It appears