As I have mentioned in previous posts, cognitive behavioral therapy is more than challenging negative, automatic thoughts. There is a whole behavioral piece of this therapy that focuses on what people ...

Cognitive flexibility is vital for improving problem-solving skills. It allows you to adapt your thinking and approach ...

In 1976, psychologist Aaron Beck, best known for the Beck Depression Inventory, proposed a theory to explain how negative self-talk — or cognitive distortions — prevent people from defining and ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – New research aims to help educators quantify how the best students perform problem solving with the aid of instructional videos, a step toward learning how to better coach ...

Planning and problem solving constitute central facets of executive functioning and are critical in a broad range of neuropsychological evaluations. Cognitive assessment methods, including classical ...

Michael Hogan receives funding from the Health Research Board (Ireland), and Horizon 2020 (EU Funding) for a variety of basic and applied research and project work. Lawrence Whalley and Roger Staff do ...

Many experts argue that creative thinking requires people to challenge their preconceptions and assumptions about the way the world works. One common claim, for example, is that the mental shortcuts ...

Jane McGonigal, a world-renowned designer of alternate-reality games who has a Ph.D. in performance studies, wants to change people's conception of video games as "just escapist, guilty pleasures." ...

The American Industrial Hygiene Association’s AIHA Connect event, scheduled for May 20-22 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, is set to feature two keynote speakers who will ...