Better Living Through Psychology

What does your doctor do when you tell her or him that you’re not getting better? What would you do if her response was “more of the same”? I dare say you’d at least leave and see another doctor. That would make sense and it happens rarely because good doctors pay attention to signs of [...]

…you’re getting more sleep than you think you are. Allison Harvey and Nicole Tang of Oxford University showed in one experiment that people with primary insomnia underestimate the total amount of sleep they get and overestimate how long it takes them to fall asleep. This suggests that maybe it’s not so much the amount of [...]