Why Streaks Work: The Psychology of Daily Language Learning Habits
A visible streak counter - a number showing how many consecutive days you have practiced - seems like a small, almost gimmicky feature, but it taps into a genuinely well-documented psychological mecha
Why Testing Yourself Beats Rereading Your Vocabulary List
It feels productive to reread your saved vocabulary list from top to bottom, and it feels considerably less comfortable to be quizzed and get answers wrong. Despite this, decades of memory research co
The Psychology of Glanceable Learning: Why Small Exposures Add Up
It seems intuitively wrong that glancing at a word for half a second, dozens of times, could matter as much as sitting down and studying it deliberately for several minutes. But memory research on exp