Psychology suggests that people who always eat hot dogs on the Fourth of July are often doing more than keeping a tradition alive. Familiar holiday foods can strengthen feelings of belonging, ...

In the lab, they’ve displayed astonishing prowess for getting through obstacles, including overcoming strong natural aversions to reach a goal. Yet, they can’t do much of anything on their own. It’s ...

Ape minds have long been treated as clues to humanity’s past. Compare a chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, or orangutan with a person, the logic goes, and you might catch a glimpse of when key mental ...

Some women report associating certain male names with red flags in dating, shaped by psychology, memory bias, and personal past experiences.

Context graphs, graph memory, and ontologies for AI are converging. What does this mean for enterprise AI in 2026?

With 1 in 4 Israelis likely to ask AI for voting guidance, a tech startup tests how leading models handle such queries, warns chatbots rely on biased sources and prioritize pleasing users over stating ...

To help students see the value of what they’re learning, show them how the curriculum connects to the real world.

Learning from potential disinformation introduces specific cognitive biases, causing individuals to systematically deviate from an idealized Bayesian updating strategy.

Thousands of hippocampal neurons are born in adulthood, suggesting that new cells could be important for hippocampal function. To determine whether hippocampus-dependent learning affects ...

Every day in class, students are encouraged to ‘visualise’, ‘imagine’ or ‘picture’ concepts in their minds. Some find this ...

A study of 26,000 students found AI boosted homework scores while eroding exam performance. The AI trap responsible may be at ...

Popular communication methods for nonspeaking autistic people have ignited a fierce debate over what counts as evidence of ...