New evidence from the brain sciences, including cognitive psychology and neurophysiology, shows that emotions play an important role in the mental processes of humans. And that means if we want to ...

How do you feel when you’re put on the spot and expected to do well in a stressful situation? Perhaps you’ve been handed an important task at work, one that is completely new to you. The person who ...

Negative emotions, such as test anxiety, for example, often occur in high-value, low-control situations. But emotions such as boredom, one of the most damaging emotions for students, can occur when ...

The Rorschach test is a psychological test designed by psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in the early 1900s. The test involves presenting a subject with images of inkblots; the person then describes what ...

The Turing Test takes its name from a 1950 paper by Alan Turing, the British mathematician who laid out the foundations of modern computer science. Turing had wearied of the interminable debates about ...

For Sam Konstas, the biggest challenge in his early taste of Test cricket wasn't the batting - it was managing the emotion of playing in front of a huge crowd at the MCG last December. At just 19, he ...