Second-guessing yourself? Here’s how it can hurt (and at times help) your confidence.

Gender and anxiety reveal distinct computational sources of underconfidence - Volume 56

Author summary Breathing is more than just a vital process for survival — it influences how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Recent research suggests that the rhythm of breathing, fr...

Cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology have made substantial advances in knowledge about metacognitive processes, but these fields have progressed in parallel. In this Review, Seow et al. inte...

A computational model called Centaur, developed by fine-tuning a language model on a huge dataset called Psych-101, can predict and simulate human nature in experiments expressible in natural language...

Academics can feel like they’ve tricked their colleagues into overestimating them. This researcher knows how to fight it.

Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.

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A new study from the University of Copenhagen and University College London has unraveled why some people feel insecure in their abilities—even when they are actually good at what they do.

Bedragersyndrom. Mange veluddannede undervurderer kronisk egne evner. Nyt studie viser, at den rette feedback kan give dem et mere retvisende syn på sig selv.

Computational modeling reveals how uncertainty transforms harmless stimuli into perceptions of pain.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

How itch and pain, which are similar but distinct, are processed in the brain remains unclear. Here, the authors show modality-specific neural circuits between the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and ...