Every day we explain why people did what they did, and the explanations are rarely neutral. This path starts with how we explain our own actions versus someone else's, moves through assumptions about intent and blame...
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This path follows one feeling through time. It begins with the mistakes people make when they predict how they will feel, moves to how an experience is judged while it is being weighed up and recalled, and ends with the...
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Most of us believe our choices come from our own weighing of the facts. This path follows ten phenomena in which something outside the facts does much of the steering: the room we learned in, the option placed beside...
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The mind is built to find order, and it often finds it where none exists. This path moves from the basic habit of seeing meaning in random input, through the illusions it produces about streaks, frequency and personal...
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These eleven phenomena follow one question through the economics of everyday life: why do people value, spend, keep and give money in ways that a plain calculation would not predict? The path starts with what we own and...
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This path follows one thread through the psychology of self-assessment: people tend to see themselves as more able, more knowing, more transparent and more in control than the evidence supports. It begins with the plain...
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This path follows a memory from the way it is learned to the ways it fails and is reshaped. It starts with the study conditions that make memories last, moves through what gets remembered and forgotten, and ends with...
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This trail follows the mind in company, from how we misjudge what others think and notice, through how our impressions and expectations of people change them, to what happens to effort, judgment and belief when...
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This path follows errors in judgment from the first estimate a person makes to the verdict they pass on themselves and others. It starts with shortcuts for estimating numbers and odds, moves to how evidence is gathered...
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Six of psychology's most cited studies, and the historians and psychologists who later re-examined what they actually showed -- ending with the 2015 project that measured how much of the field's published literature...
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Eight of this atlas's eighteen branches carried real prose but no link to a single psychologist, theory or study. This trail follows the wave that repaired four of them: Constructivism, its own founders, and the...
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From a hospital ward to a rat cage to a brain diagram everyone has seen: this trail follows famous psychology findings whose own methods, replications or later scrutiny forced the field to say less than it first...
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Structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism and psychoanalysis were only the beginning. This trail follows six later schools, and the psychologists who founded them, from Alfred Adler's 1912 break with Freud to Abraham...
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From a single misremembered stop sign to a field-wide reckoning: this trail follows memory research, personality theory and the replication crisis through the psychologists and studies that taught psychology to question...
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Psychology grew through its disagreements as much as its discoveries. This trail follows two of them: the earliest rivalry between structuralism and functionalism over what the young science should even study, and the...
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