Is Your Phone’s Blue Light Ruining Your Sleep? The Evidence Is Weak
Night Shift, amber glasses, screen curfews: we rated five popular claims about phones and sleep against the research. The light is rarely the real problem.
The Thank-You Letter You Keep Not Writing Is Worth More Than You Think
Gratitude journals deliver less than the hype. A short letter you never send may be the exception, and you can test it in a week.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Real, but Not the Way the Internet Draws It
The famous “Mount Stupid” curve isn’t in the original study. Here’s what Kruger and Dunning actually found, and what statisticians did to it.
Does Your Wall Colour Change Your Mood? The Strange Story of ‘Drunk Tank Pink’
A pink prison cell, a famous red-versus-blue study and a paint chart full of promises. What colour science can and cannot tell you before you redecorate.
Multitasking Is Mostly a Myth, but 1 in 40 People Might Be the Exception
Follow an ordinary workday through 25 years of research on task switching, phones and the rare “supertaskers” who seem to break the rules.
Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? What Your Attachment Quiz Gets Wrong
Online quizzes promise to name your attachment style in five minutes. The science behind them is real, but it says something quite different about labels.
The Bystander Effect: Why the Famous Story Is Only Half True
The 38 silent witnesses to Kitty Genovese’s murder were largely a myth. The science of bystanders is more hopeful, and more useful, than the legend.
The Women Who Named Imposter Syndrome Never Wanted It Called a Syndrome
Two psychologists described it in 1978 as an experience, not an illness. How common is it really, who gets it, and what did the label get wrong?
Pen or Laptop? Putting a Decade of Note-Taking Research on Trial
One 2014 study told students to ditch the laptop. Then the replications, meta-analyses and brain scans arrived. Here is what the evidence actually shows.
Does a Cluttered Home Make You Stressed? A Room-by-Room Look at the Science
From the hallway to the desk, what researchers have actually found about clutter, cortisol, snacking and sleep, and where the evidence runs thin.