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Cognitive Psychology
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn't). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
If you're trying to hide how you feel about something, be careful with your hands.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.
Instead of liberation, the sexual revolution has led some people, particularly men, to be addicted to porn.
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Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’
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For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
Humans tend to hunker down in our own minds and trust what we already believe to be true. This emotion-based way of thought isn't often the best way to think about anything, and often leads to gridlock.
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A clever neuroscience experiment shows that the "other-race effect" is likely due to a lack of experience and perceptual expertise rather than racism.
Research shows how temperature can be used to manipulate circadian rhythms.
You open an app and start scrolling, then suddenly it's an hour later. Sound familiar?
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
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A neuroscientist explains how to master your focus.
There are two conceptions of free will: "straight" and "mixed."
A new study shows that political partisans are more likely to remember things that didn't happen — as long as it fits their narrative.
It might be good for your memory.
In a world where we assume people tell the truth, liars prosper. To stop them from exploiting others, here are three rules to catch a liar.
A new finding that unconsciously processed images are distributed to higher-order brain networks requires the revision of a popular theory of consciousness.
There is no long-term beneficial effect of medication on standardized test scores.
Does memory start to work only at a certain age?
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Having trouble learning? A PhD engineering professor gives you one key tip.
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If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.
We tend to assume our view of the world is objective and accurate rather than subjective and biased — which is what it really is.
In the age of distraction, don't we all want to read faster and more efficiently?
Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.
Immersive learning creates an interactive environment in which learners have the power to customize their experience.