Our brains respond to language expressing facts differently than they do to words conveying possibility, a team of neuroscientists has found. Its work offers new insights into the impact word choice ...

I chose the topic “Career Transitions” for my Psychology Today blog posts because I liked the flexibility of the phrase. Almost any career topic I would choose to write about could be covered by the ...

Children too young to know words like "impossible" and "improbable" nonetheless understand how possibility works, finds new work with 2- and 3-year-olds. The findings, the first to demonstrate that ...