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Melissa Hughes
- Jul 1, 2023
- 3 min
Get Your Game Face On
The expression we wear doesn't just influence people around us, it also influences our own mood, cognition, and recovery from stress.
Melissa Hughes
- Jun 29, 2023
- 3 min
Why Fake News Fools the Best of Us
Fake news and political propaganda are rooted in the illusory effect. It's a neural glitch that causes us to believe things that aren't true
Melissa Hughes
- Jun 29, 2023
- 3 min
How Cognitive Fluency Influences Who and What We Like
As amazing as the human brain is, it's also very lazy. The easier info is to process the more we like it, believe it and trust it.
Melissa Hughes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 4 min
Intellectual Humility: Are You Open to Being Wrong?
How receptive are you to understand why someone disagrees with you rather than persuade that person to see it your way?
Melissa Hughes
- Jun 9, 2023
- 4 min
Are You a Master Multitasker?
While many of us think we're multitasking ninjas, neuroscience says there's no such thing as multitasking. We just switch from task to task
Melissa Hughes
- Jun 7, 2023
- 3 min
Why You Should Take that Beach Vacation
There is a wealth of scientific evidence that spending time in nature has a host of mental and physical benefits. Now, recent cutting-edge