I feel a bit of dissonance over writing this post. My newly edited book on dissonance, Cognitive Dissonance: Re-examining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology, is an update of the book Jud Mills and I ...

Research Paper UWS 37A - The Biology of Morality Dr. Elissa Jacobs Library Research Excellence Prize, 2023 About this paper | This paper as PDF | APA format “Sometimes I look at my hands and I ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...

Cognitive functioning affects how people think and their ability to remember things. Impairment in this area of brain health may cause a decline in how someone responds to their environment mentally ...

When an eye-catching (not yet peer reviewed) MIT Media Lab paper — Your Brain on ChatGPT — landed this month, the headline sounded almost playful. The data are anything but. Over four months, students ...

AI is going to be part of our lives, at scale. It is something we need to reckon with. The question is whether we remain ...

Why do some players naturally pull in on a joystick to look up, like they’re flying a plane, whereas others press forward? For many years, the issue has been discussed in terms of habit, nostalgia, or ...