Mark Travers

Forgetting names and details isn't a failing mind at work. Two habitual patterns of forgetfulness reveal how efficiently your brain edits what actually matters.

Find a therapist near me Most people assume a difficult mood should be understood before it can be resolved.

Most accounts of a mind going dull revolve around the same explanation: disuse. If you stop reading, stop learning, coast — and the machinery rusts.

Some habits look disorganized from the outside but make you more productive.

In the 1920s, a Berlin psychologist named Bluma Zeigarnik noticed something odd about the waiters at a local café, according to a 2020 study published

Ask people how much love is in their lives they start counting people. A partner, or no partner. Two or three friends who'd pick up at 2 a.m.

Decisiveness gets treated as a proxy for intelligence. The person who answers immediately, who never hedges, who says “let's just go” while everyone

A psychologist explains why relentless self-doubt fuels anxiety, not clarity — and the single question shift that turns overthinking into real insight.

Nobody sets out to keep a ledger in their relationship. It often accumulates without our knowledge: the three nights in a row of dishes, the birthday

A psychologist explains why the habit of canceling plans and quitting early can signal sharp thinking, not flakiness, backed by new research on goal disengagement