intelligence
02/01/2017 - 13:07
Our intelligence must have also been useful when we were evolving—presumably it helped us to be better hunters and avoid being hunted... →
04/11/2016 - 16:44
We are talking in the living room of his son Victor, who is a mathematician at the University of Oxford, during a flying visit from his... →
08/09/2016 - 11:58
The political lens
There is now a mountain of evidence to show that politics doesn’t just help predict people’s views on some scientific... →
07/09/2015 - 12:42
Kruger and Dunning were interested in testing another kind of laughing matter. They asked professional comedians to rate 30 jokes for... →
10/05/2015 - 13:14
The first steps to answering these questions were taken almost a century ago, at the height of the American Jazz Age. At the time, the new-... →
03/04/2015 - 15:44
To get some answers, psychologists Joshua Hartshorne and Laura Germine tested 21,926 people aged 10 to 71 who had visited the website... →
20/02/2015 - 14:35
“There's lots of evidence that dogs are more skilled than primates at thinking about a person's communicative intentions,” says Laurie R.... →
22/12/2014 - 14:20
But let’s back up a little. There’s one point that everyone agrees upon: our species exhibits a clear biological preparedness for language... →
03/11/2014 - 13:08
There is also an argument that it's not a parental socialization effect, but that intelligence is passed down from parent to children... →
24/06/2014 - 17:44
The idea of "muscle memory" encourages this – allowing us to cordon off feats of motor skill as a special kind of psychological phenomenon... →
07/06/2014 - 12:30
The problem with smart people
The problem with really smart people is that they often think they know more than everyone else. Maybe they... →
06/04/2014 - 14:04
3. Don't Read To Your Kids, Read With Them
Got a little one who is learning to read? Don't let them just stare at the pictures in a book... →