The amazing consistency of physical expressions in dealing with pride, as well as for shame, has fascinated many scientists.
19 Jul 2018 12:27 AM
Simply owning something makes your mind think it is worth more!
11 Jun 2018 1:05 AM
Today, we look at a different kind of decision, such as purchasing stocks of a company.
27 Apr 2018 12:20 AM
The explore/exploit trade-off has been studied by computer scientists for many decades.
17 Mar 2018 1:39 AM
To understand it mathematically, we need to consider all possibilities, even diseases other than X.
07 Feb 2018 3:08 AM
Their discovery was that the complex body clock has a simple framework of operation.
24 Dec 2017 12:35 AM
The word random means selecting something by chance, and not according to a plan. Randomness is often very useful.
13 Nov 2017 12:17 AM
One reason behind this is a well-studied human trait, called confirmation bias.
19 Aug 2017 12:23 AM
The truth is, we eat not just to satisfy our hunger, but also for a lot of emotional and habitual reasons.
10 Jul 2017 1:22 AM
The proverbial example of judging the glass as being half full or half empty is another example that invokes your ‘affective’ brain.
24 May 2017 12:15 AM
There is even a name for the study of dreams: Oneirology.
13 Apr 2017 12:47 AM
Thinking about cognition is meta-thinking or meta-cognition.
01 Mar 2017 12:26 AM
Our choice is the Hering illusion, first described by German physiologist Ewald Hering in 1861.
20 Jan 2017 12:14 AM