psychology

The other draw for players: claw machines leverage some of the exact same cognitive hooks as slot machines, said Elliot Ludvig, a University of Warwick psychology professor who studies rewards-based decision-making.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Singh enrolled in UC Santa Cruz in June 2024 and was a psychology major, according to Hernandez-Jason.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Its findings could be useful in psychology, behavioral research, and the design of environments in which people regularly make choices.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

Your feeling of security with this plan is about your own psychology, and you know that best.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Good writing can flip the way the world is perceived, like the silhouette in psychology textbooks which oscillates between a goblet and two faces.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

As for Mr. Oliver’s enthusiasm for psychotherapy, not all of us are able to spend long hours exploring the wounds that our unique psychologies or childhoods have inflicted on us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

In the painterly warmth of his effort, he succeeds, without condescension or pathos, but also without ignoring daily life’s realities or the psychologies of tightknit families in strapped circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

Exhibiting all the storytelling skills that made her earlier books so readable and popular, Pulley also offers a piercing study of how a police state deforms individual psychologies, personal relationships and professional ethics.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2022

“Certain scenes were about knowing what was happening or imagining what was happening, but not actually seeing it, so you could then get into people’s psychologies a little bit,” Cave said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

At any rate he is late, has missed one of the psychologies of the convention.

From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters