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What Old Age Is Really Like
16/04/2017 - 12:10
Somewhere along the way, though, things went wrong. My protagonist became Generic Old Man: crabby, computer illiterate, grieving for his... →
Self-defense against criticism
04/04/2017 - 12:54
Our fragile egos are partly to blame. We all want to meet our own expectations of ourselves, and so being critiqued – or even just the... →
Brain is not a computer
02/04/2017 - 15:07
Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. For... →
The bilingual brain: why one size doesn’t fit all
30/03/2017 - 15:54
Despite all the fuss that has been made about the ‘bilingual advantage’, most researchers have moved on from the simplistic ‘is there an... →
The Anatomy of Charisma
21/03/2017 - 11:56
Scientists have plenty to say about charisma. Individuals with charisma tap our unfettered emotions and can shut down our rational minds.... →
How to get people to overcome their bias
16/03/2017 - 13:48
Once you learn about this mental habit – called confirmation bias – you start seeing it everywhere. This matters when we... →
Name and person’s appearance
10/03/2017 - 15:48
Led by Dr. Ruth Mayo and PhD candidate Yonat Zwebner, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem examined whether a person... →
Why is the East and the West think differently
19/02/2017 - 15:31
As Horace Capron first travelled through Hokkaido in 1871, he searched for a sign of human life among the vast prairies, wooded glades and... →
How East and West think in profoundly different ways
02/02/2017 - 16:15
As Horace Capron first travelled through Hokkaido in 1871, he searched for a sign of human life among the vast prairies, wooded glades and... →
The pros and cons of the time travelling mind
26/11/2016 - 13:19
If you are meeting some friends for lunch, your prospective memory reminds you to turn up on the right day, but you can also picture... →
The myth of the mob
28/10/2016 - 14:00
Political rallies can also become violent, although they often begin peacefully enough. Then there are spontaneous riots, usually sparked... →
Four ways that other people can warp your memory
23/10/2016 - 13:59
These are not rare events. Every time you have a conversation, you are inviting someone to ghost-write bits of your autobiography. It... →

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