Why Atheists Are Not as Rational as Some Like to Think
‘I don’t believe in God, I believe in science,’ atheists often argue. But that doesn’t mean their thinking is evidence-based.
The Conversation
Topics: Atheism Belief Cognition Rationality
What Made Us Unique
How we became a different kind of animal.
Scientific American
Topics: Animal Studies Cognition Cognitive Development Cultural Evolution Human Uniqueness Kevin Laland Social Behavior Social Learning
Why Social Science Needs Evolutionary Theory
The lack of willingness to view human cognition and behavior as within the purview of evolutionary processes has prevented evolution from being fully integrated into the social science curriculum.
Nautilus
Topics: Cognition Cristine Legare Cultural Evolution Evolutionary Theory Social Behavior Social Learning
Harnessing the Power of Neuroscience
What if your brain at 77 were as plastic as it was at 7? What if you could learn Mandarin with the ease of a toddler or play Rachmaninoff without breaking a sweat? A growing understanding of neuroplasticity suggests these fantasies could one day become reality.
World Science Festival
Topics: Cognition Learning Neuroplasticity
Jump-Starting Creativity
The Laboratory for Relational Cognition at Georgetown University explores the brain mechanisms that underlie creative thinking.
Monitor on Psychology, American Psychological Association
Topics: Cognition Creativity
The Believing Brain
The human brain has a compulsion to attribute meaning to what happens in our lives through a belief system.
All In The Mind, ABC Radio National
Topics: Agency Belief Brian Greene Cognition Meaning Spirituality
Study Suggests Meditating Can Prevent Age-Related Mental Decline
A recent study finds that a continuous meditation practice is associated with improvements in sustained attention.
Salon
Topics: Cognition Meditation
The Serious Side of Our Mind
How people with their rational imagination create alternatives to reality.
TEDxTrinityCollegeDublin
Topics: Cognition Imagination Rationality
Babies Expect People to Be Fair. They Also Expect Them to Be Prejudiced
A group of researchers tested expectations of fairness in 120 children ranging in age from 18 to 30 months old.
Quartz
Topics: Bias Cognition Fairness Tribalism
Why You’re More Likely to Make an Immoral Decision When Speaking a Foreign Language
Language changes vividness of mental images, which influence decisions.
Topics: Cognition Decision-Making Language Morality
Neanderthals Were Artists and Thought Symbolically, New Studies Argue
Neanderthals created art and knew how to use symbols, new studies say.
Ars Technica
Topics: Cognition Human Uniqueness Language Neanderthals
Strong-Willed Chimps Reveal Evolutionary Origins of Human Willpower
Study on some very disciplined chimpanzees suggests that our ability to exercise restraint has much deeper evolutionary roots than our worsening smartphone addictions may suggest.
Inverse
Topics: Animal Studies Cognition Intelligence Self-Control Willpower
What Underpins Belief in God?
New research challenges the idea that intuitive thinkers are more likely to be believers.
Pacific Standard
Topics: Belief Cognition Religiosity Spirituality
Faith Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking, Study Shows
“Religious belief is most likely rooted in culture rather than in some primitive gut intuition,” said researcher Miguel Farias.
UPI
Topics: Belief Cognition Faith
How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds
Research suggests that as the brain grows dependent on phone technology, the intellect weakens.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Cognition Empathy Intelligence Knowledge Technology Trust
Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other
With his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman emerged as one of the most intriguing voices on the complexity of human thought and behavior.
On Being
Topics: Belief Bias Cognition Decision-Making Krista Tippett Rationality
‘But You Can’t Do That!’ Why Immoral Actions Seem Impossible
We are often blind to the possibility of immoral actions.
Aeon
Topics: Cognition Morality
Imagination Is Ancient
Our imaginative life today has access to the pre-linguistic, ancestral mind: rich in imagery, emotions, and associations.
Topics: Cognition Creativity Embodied Cognition Imagination Language
What Happens to Creativity as We Age?
How does the ability to come up with unusual ideas change as we grow older?
Gray Matter, The New York Times
Topics: Cognition Creativity Imagination
Less Unique Than We Think
The idea that humans are special bumps up against Darwin’s great insight: the continuity of all life. David Barash reviews The Creative Spark by Agustín Fuentes and Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony by Kevin N. Laland.
Topics: Cognition Cooperation Creativity Cultural Evolution Human Uniqueness Imagination
Are Babies Born Biased?
Two new studies add to the evidence that we make the distinction between members of our group and outsiders very early in life.
Topics: Bias Cognition Group Conflict Tribalism
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