English readings — Psychology
300 original readings written by the FitForm team, graded B1 → C2 and sorted by topic. Reading is free and needs no account; exercises, vocabulary review and essay marking need a FitForm login.
The myth of learning styles
Ask a hundred teachers whether students learn better when taught in their preferred style — visual, auditory,…
The first week of a habit
Almost everyone can do something new for three days. The interesting question is what happens in the…
Memory and the shape of a day
Ask someone to describe last Tuesday and you will hear three or four moments, not fourteen hours. Memory does…
The cost of switching
Open a maths exercise. Work for four minutes. Check a message. Return to the maths. How long does it take to…
The promise of the blank page
Ask a student why an essay has not been started and the answer is rarely laziness. It is more often that…
The team that talked last
A research group at Google spent two years trying to find what made some teams work better than others. They…
The argument you should lose
There is a question worth asking before any disagreement: what would change my mind? If the answer is…
The two-minute rule
A small piece of advice circulates among people who manage a lot of small tasks: if something takes under two…
The promise of the average day
People planning a task reliably underestimate how long it will take, and the underestimate survives…
Thinking in the other language
A curious finding has been replicated several times. People make more consistent decisions about risk when…
The memory of a smell
A smell can return a memory with a completeness that a photograph rarely manages. The reason is anatomical…
The feeling of knowing
The sensation that you know something is a separate mental event from knowing it, and the two can be pulled…
The reward that removed the interest
Children who enjoyed drawing were given a certificate each time they drew. When the certificates stopped,…
The silence that was not agreement
A meeting of eleven people approved a plan unanimously. Interviewed separately afterwards, seven of them said…
The habit that survived a holiday
Two groups of adults took up running. Both ran for eight weeks and then went away for two. On returning, one…
Attention is a limited resource
Students are often told to concentrate, as though attention were a decision rather than a resource. Research…