Abramson Honored

We’re delighted to announce that Lyn Abramson and Lauren Alloy (Temple University) have been selected as the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies! This award recognizes scholars …

BBC Future: Why your favourite colour is probably blue

In 1993, crayon-maker Crayola conducted an unscientific, but intriguing poll: it asked US children to name their favourite crayon colour. Most chose a fairly standard blue, but three other blue shades also made the top …

Bookworms can “read” people, too

“He saw terror in her eyes.” “She was filled with fury.” More than any other genre, fiction is the realm of emotion. “Getting lost in a story” means entering a world we don’t want to …