Dear Carol: You’ve addressed this before, but I need help. I’m 73 and feel like I’m continually under scrutiny as my adult children watch for signs that I’m incompetent. I understand that age ...

Having a smartphone nearby reduces cognitive capacity, even when the phone is turned off, new research shows. A team of investigators led by Adrian Ward, PhD, assistant professor, McCombs School of ...

A longitudinal study in the Netherlands found that infants who displayed greater curiosity at 8 months of age tended to have ...

The illusion of transparency, which we discussed in our introductory post on cognitive kindness, is perhaps a lesser known aspect of how our minds work. A more commonly discussed idea, supported by ...

The illusion of transparency, which we discussed in our introductory post on cognitive kindness, is perhaps a lesser-known aspect of how our minds work. A more commonly discussed idea, supported by ...

Dear Carol: In general, around what age should older people stop managing their own finances? When should they stop driving? Do doctors check older people for cognitive problems at checkups? My ...

Learning to read and write is hard. Most schools make it even harder by asking students to read and write about topics they know little or nothing about. Education expert Dylan Wiliam has said (or at ...

Only about 1 in 4 Americans said that they had trust in the nation's institutions in 2023—with big business (1 in 7), television news (1 in 7) and Congress (1 in 12) scraping the very bottom. When a ...

Decades of cultivating a respect for older Americans went out the window after the June 27 debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. As a culture, we have always shown less ...