Brendan Dwyer, Ph.D., has spent his career studying sports consumer behavior, and with the recent legalization of sports ...

Last autumn, I was pacing my living room with my phone on speaker, trapped inside one of those looping conversations with my ...

This review explores the intersection between large language models (LLMs) and cognitive science by examining similarities and differences between LLMs and human cognitive processes. It evaluates ...

An individual has been described by a neighbor as follows: “Steve is very shy and withdrawn, invariably helpful but with little interest in people or in the world of reality. A meek and tidy soul, he ...

Discover the potential benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence (AI) and the importance of responsible adoption and ...

Recently, evidence derived from cognitive dissonance theory has been criticized, leading some to suggest that dissonance is not a thing. This post addresses those criticisms.

It was December 2025, and Katie Tobin’s kids were fighting again. Konrath has looked into trends in narcissism, a personality trait that involves an inflated sense of self-esteem, and that work also ...

Until recently, the philosophical zombie was a concept closely associated with Australian philosopher David Chalmers, who defines it as “someone or something physically identica ...

New research suggests that while open-mindedness and liberal ideology often go hand-in-hand, they are different traits. Actively open-minded thinking, rather than political liberalism, is the true ...

People carrying at least one APOE4 allele have a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease compared with APOE3/3 carriers; people with two APOE4 alleles have the highest risk. The APOE2 allele is associated ...

Both the idiosyncratic rater effect and quantum physics prove that feedback is more reflective of the provider than the ...

Some of the most widely circulated opinion pieces in recent months provided the argumentative equivalent of empty calories: ...