Scientists are increasingly convinced that what happens in your dreams does not stay there. A growing body of research suggests that learning to recognize and steer your dreams, a state known as lucid ...

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

When I taught “Introduction to Psychology,” we covered four main goals of psychology: to describe, explain, predict, and control behavior (Coon, Mitterer, 2013). The idea of control is ultimately self ...