You may think you know what you like -- how to spend your time or what profession to pursue. But a new study suggests that your pre-existing self-beliefs, as well as cultural stereotypes, may ...

Recent studies have explored the dynamic interplay between ocular behaviour and the retrieval of visual memories. Notably, eye movements observed during mental imagery often reflect the patterns ...

Rebecca Keogh works for the University of New South Wales and has received funding from the Australian Government in the form of an APA scholarship during her PhD. Joel Pearson receives funding from ...

Can people evaluate phenomenal qualities of internally generated experiences, such as whether a mental image is vivid or detailed? This question exemplifies a problem of metacognition: How well do ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. When someone prompts you to imagine a sunset, you can likely picture the bright ...

If you take a look around, you will see nothing human-made that did not first exist as an image in someone’s mind. It is impossible to create something that cannot first be imagined. Psychologists ...

We tend to think of writing and photography as separate domains. Writing is all about word choice and sequence and structure; it's about rhyme and rhythm and flow. Photography, on the other hand, is ...

We conducted three experiments indicating that characteristically deontological judgments—here, disapproving of sacrificing one person for the greater good of others—are preferentially supported by ...

" Our test, called the Imagination Perception Battery (BIP), is designed to assess the link between perception and mental imagery through the different visual qualities that enable a scene to be ...