Psychologists have been studying visual search for decades in order to understand how we might have developed real-world ‘foraging’ behaviour. But just how similar are the two?

The battle between selfishness and fairness takes a surprisingly long time to resolve in children, but shows the seeds of adult moral sense

With unprecedented access to news and knowledge, how do we make judgements about what we read? Neuroscience news is a case in point

Some argue that, far from motivating pro-social behaviours, empathy can push us towards inaction at best and racism and violence at worst

We may be entering the ‘alternative facts’ era – but psychologists have been studying how we develop an understanding of false beliefs for decades

Celebrity items tend to be relatively common artefacts yet attract phenomenal sums of money. Why?

A decades-old thought experiment reveals our inconsistent moral intuitions. What would you do?

Moral Foundations Theory shows that deep divides between Liberal and Conservative voters may rest on differences in how they prioritise moral issues

Here’s a Halloween-themed Mind Game for you. A 2011 psychology study claimed to show evidence for precognition - but had more to say about the state of psychology research than anything paranormal

Mind gamers, here’s a strange little test for you. Which of these shapes is a bouba, and which is a kiki? And what does this have to do with the evolution of language?

Do you see a wife, or a mother-in-law in this picture? Ambiguous figures have intrigued scientists since the 1800s, but what can they tell us about our visual system?

Mind gamers: why was a picture of Margaret Thatcher so important for understanding the human visual system?

Mind gamers, put your attentional capacity to the test

Mind gamers, which of the two centre circles below is bigger? And what does this tell us about how the visual system works?

We all forget things - but are the things that we do remember as accurate as we’d like to believe?

In the first in Mind Games, our new series on classic psychology experiments, we show you how to conduct the Stroop test, which looks at how language is processed