If asked to draw a picture of a tree or a person in front of them, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Thirty years ago, two psychologists pointed out that this should be surprising. They reasoned ...

Using eye-gaze methods, this research investigated infants’ ability to make moral character inferences. For a wide range of moral roles, infants could use an agent’s past moral behavior to revise thei...

What One Battle After Another gets right about the psychology of authoritarianism

On Cat Bohannon’s book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.

On Cat Bohannon’s book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.

on C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score & Nicholson Baker's A Box of Matches

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Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation

Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

We are interested in stories of everyday revenge—cases where you successfully got back at someone after being wronged. Please think up an experience of when you took revenge and tell us about it. Pl...

We are interested in stories of everyday revenge—cases where you successfully got back at someone after being wronged. Please think up an experience of when you took revenge and tell us about it. Pl...

Beliefs can be resistant to evidence. Nonetheless, the orthodox view in epistemology analyzes beliefs as evidence-responsive attitudes. I address this tension by deploying analytical tools on capaciti...

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