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Vaccine hesitancy is often met with one of two responses: Ridicule, or factual information. Both assume a failure of reason, but human behaviour is more complex than reason, so both responses fail.
Research shows that people with more flow in their lives had a higher sense of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists are beginning to explore what happens in the brain during flow.
Errors don’t necessarily mean your mind is faulty. They may actually be a sign of a cognitive system with limited capacity working efficiently.
That feeling of ‘I-know-it-but-can’t-quite-remember-it’ has been studied for decades, but there’s a new twist: It’s more common in groups.
Cognitive scientists are investigating the ways relative factors like new options and the order they’re presented influence your choices and beliefs.
Cognitive shortcuts help you efficiently move through a complicated world. But they come with an unwelcome side effect: Facts aren’t necessarily enough to change your mind.
Thinking of SARS-CoV-2 as an invisible enemy with an evil personality and humanlike motivations is a natural offshoot of the way people evolved to anthropomorphize so as not to overlook threats.
People have changed over time, growing ever more distant and isolated from others – while at the same time finding new ways and technologies that let individuals connect and feel with others.
Is making sense of a story more important than getting at its truth? Looking at the treatment of myth in ancient Greece may help us navigate what is true, and whether that matters.
A quirk of psychology that affects the way people learn from others may have helped unlock the complicated technologies and rituals that human culture hinges on.
We fall sway to fake news because it grabs our attention through outlandish claims, suggests false memories and contains appeals to our emotions that align with our politics.
There are reasons to be skeptical, of both the quality of the evidence presented so far and the questionable assumptions that underlie claims of improved cognitive function after brain training.
Sports fans see it all the time: two people arguing about a split-second difference in who did what. New research suggests human beings have a bias to perceive their own actions as happening sooner.
It can be hard to understand a non-native speaker of your own language. But conversation is a two-way street and linguists are figuring out how native listeners can improve their half of the interaction.
The self-help books are full of advice on how to get meaning in life, but it helps to understand what meaning actually is. Science may be able to provide some answers.
If consciousness is a by-product of our brains’ nonconscious processes, where does that leave us?
Multitasking may not be what you think it is and it might not even help you be more productive if you choose to do the wrong things at the same time.
Even people who claim to hate routines probably follow quite a few.
It’s a psychological quirk that when something becomes rarer, people may spot it in more places than ever. What is the ‘concept creep’ that lets context change how we categorize the world around us?
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PhD Candidate, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University
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Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Assistant professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce
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Associate Professor in Psychological Science, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Neuropsychology, University of Westminster
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External Research Professor at Santa Fe Institute, USA & Professor, Head of the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT), Head of Science Board, Initiative for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP), University of Southern Denmark
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Associate Professor of Medical Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Kingston University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science
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Professor of Information Technology, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Macquarie University
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, UNSW
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Professor of Psychology, Director of the Centre for the Politics of Feelings, Royal Holloway, University of London