Your working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation are core components of executive function (EF), an interrelated set of mental skills that lay the foundation for advanced cognitive ...

What you do–and therefore, what you achieve–is a function of behavior and environment. Why do we act the way we do? That’s a question psychologist Kurt Lewin set out to answer when he proposed a ...

Repetitive behaviors are not an uncommon part of human experience, but not all repetitive actions serve the same purpose or carry the same meaning. Two types of behaviors that are often confused are ...