2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (450+ words) Posted August 14, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan We are constantly learning from experience, trying to figure out what predicts good outcomes and what predicts bad ones. The challenge is that the world is noisy. Every experience contains countless details, only some…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (131+ words) Posted August 12, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. So write that Heated Rivalry story you’ve been thinking about. But write your own stories, develop your own voice, and share your creation with the community that will appreciate them, imperfections and all....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (516+ words) Posted August 12, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. This post is co-authored by Emily Irving and Jeff Wetzler. The underlying dynamic is identical. In both cases, the person making the decision leaves more confident – not because their idea was genuinely challenged,…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (650+ words) Psychology Today Can AI Read the Room? Silent pauses and the embodied side of collective intelligence. Posted July 24, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. - Social sensitivity, not just individual ability, is a key predictor of collective intelligence. - AI-driven analytics can now…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (762+ words) Psychology Today Will Machines Ever Be Able to Truly Think? Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus questioned whether computers could ever truly think. Posted July 23, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley - Pioneers of artificial intelligence believed that a thinking machine could be created. - Artificial intelligence…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (371+ words) Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Artificial intelligence has much to tell us about deception based on recent experiments carried out by scientists at the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. The researchers grounded their research on new and startling insights into…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (433+ words) Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Human intelligence and artificial intelligence don't differ simply in how they think. They differ in what happens after a thought is made. For years, I've called these two forms of cognition different axes, not…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (584+ words) Psychology Today Do Large Language Models Think Like Us? LLMs produce content that seems human, yet the underlying dynamics differ. Posted July 20, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk - While LLMs appear to reason, their "thought" processes fundamentally differ from ours. - Human reasoning…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (880+ words) Psychology Today Happy Birthday, AI—and Happy Birthday to You Too, Psychology The 70th birthday of AI is also the birthday of cognitive science and psychology. Posted July 9, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch - In the summer of 1956, “artificial intelligence” was coined....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (402+ words) Posted July 8, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills Two details stand out to me. First, no one engineered this workspace. It emerged on its own during training. Second, when researchers suppressed the J-space, basic recall survived, but complex reasoning collapsed. Whatever the…...