For years, a professor has assigned her students to spend three hours with an artwork. A reporter tried this “immersive attention” experiment with a Velázquez masterpiece. Credit... Supported by By ...

Our ability to cooperate with others may be influenced by how our attention is captured and directed, as much as by how altruistic we are feeling, according to a new study. Our ability to cooperate ...

The study involved three experiments designed to explore this question. In each experiment, participants in a committed relationship were exposed to scenarios in which their partner either received ...