Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Whether you’re a skeptic or a believer, past-life memories have fascinated ...

From “affect” and “effect,” where one has an A and one an E, to “let’s” and “lets,” where that little apostrophe makes a big difference, English is filled with pairs of similar words you’re probably ...

Jason had been dating Nadia for four months, and everything seemed to be going well, except that Jason could not get it out of his head that Nadia had been intimate with other men in the past. Even ...

For more than a century, memory research has focused on the past. Psychologists have analysed the cognitive processes that allow individuals to retain past experiences, and neuroscientists have ...

“Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a ...

In a way, all of us are time travelers. If we just pause and close our eyes we can wander back to our first kiss...our first breakup...that grandparent we should have visited...the summer that went on ...

Have you ever run into someone who you immediately felt a strong connection to, despite the fact that you'd never met before? This phenomenon could just indicate a random but powerful synergy between ...

Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species Sang-Hee Lee W. W. Norton: 2018. Many people assume that palaeoanthropology deals only with the past. The ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Betsy began her career in international finance and it has since grown into a comprehensive ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Past service refers to the period of employment prior to an employee’s participation in a ...