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How Do You Know What You Know?

How do we know what we know? Developing a more nuanced understanding of the different types of knowledges and intelligences has valuable applications for your everyday life.

How do we know what we know? Developing a more nuanced understanding of the different types of knowledges and intelligences has valuable applications for your everyday life.

Critical Thinking Is All About “Connecting the Dots”

Being persuasive relies on critical thinking, but critical thinking itself relies on the ability to remember information.

Being persuasive relies on critical thinking, but critical thinking itself relies on the ability to remember information.

Beyond High IQ: Why Giftedness Is Not Just a Number

Is a high IQ the only measure of brilliance? Exploring the multifaceted world of giftedness, high IQ, and neurodiversity.

Is a high IQ the only measure of brilliance? Exploring the multifaceted world of giftedness, high IQ, and neurodiversity.

Technology and Your Intuition

Technology is reshaping our intuitive abilities. Learn practical strategies to reclaim your focus and enhance cognitive performance.

Technology is reshaping our intuitive abilities. Learn practical strategies to reclaim your focus and enhance cognitive performance.

Super Artificial General Intelligence (Super-AGI)

Future machines will be smarter than us and may revolutionize mental healthcare. Is this an “Oppenheimer moment”?

Future machines will be smarter than us and may revolutionize mental healthcare. Is this an “Oppenheimer moment”?

Are Extraverts Less Intelligent?

Researchers conducted a meta-analysis to resolve mixed findings on extraversion and intelligence.

Researchers conducted a meta-analysis to resolve mixed findings on extraversion and intelligence.

AI Performance Enhanced With Human Developmental Psychology

A new AI machine-learning method uses concepts from human developmental psychology and childhood learning to achieve nearly 15 percent greater accuracy.

A new AI machine-learning method uses concepts from human developmental psychology and childhood learning to achieve nearly 15 percent greater accuracy.

Bumblebees Learn From Each Other

Research is proving that the extraordinary cognitive abilities of tiny creatures are not science fiction.

Research is proving that the extraordinary cognitive abilities of tiny creatures are not science fiction.

Are You a Slow Processor?

Relational intelligence is more important than being quick-witted. Many people who process slower than the norm can be both wiser and deeper than the verbal virtuoso.

Relational intelligence is more important than being quick-witted. Many people who process slower than the norm can be both wiser and deeper than the verbal virtuoso.

Can ChatGPT Think Now?

Much of the hype and controversy surrounding large language models revolves around how we define words like intelligence, mind, and thinking.

Much of the hype and controversy surrounding large language models revolves around how we define words like intelligence, mind, and thinking.

Convergent Attention, Divergent Consciousness

Cognition and intelligence create a common background. This is in tension with the radically private nature of consciousness.

Cognition and intelligence create a common background. This is in tension with the radically private nature of consciousness.

AI Helps Explain What the Brain Finds Memorable

An AI model helps explain why some images make a lasting impact while others are filtered out by the brain.

An AI model helps explain why some images make a lasting impact while others are filtered out by the brain.

Dopamine, Intelligence, and Sex Drive: An Intriguing Nexus

Dopamine mediates the desire for sexuality and also ingenuity. A heightened dopaminergic system in the brains of geniuses may lead them to seek more sexual experiences in their private lives.

Dopamine mediates the desire for sexuality and also ingenuity. A heightened dopaminergic system in the brains of geniuses may lead them to seek more sexual experiences in their private lives.

Preaching Caution on the Road to AI

We seem to be speeding toward the first artificial superintelligence. If it happens, according to AI expert Darren Mckee, it will be a profound, exciting, and dangerous moment.

We seem to be speeding toward the first artificial superintelligence. If it happens, according to AI expert Darren Mckee, it will be a profound, exciting, and dangerous moment.

What Makes One Dog More Intelligent Than Another?

Dog intelligence has a problem-solving factor, a learning factor, and a G factor that ties them together.

Dog intelligence has a problem-solving factor, a learning factor, and a G factor that ties them together.

Life Within Our Consciousness

Have we become the "wise’ Homo sapiens we like to call ourselves? Beneath the radar of the world news, perhaps there may be interesting glimpses of what it means to be fully human.

Have we become the "wise’ Homo sapiens we like to call ourselves? Beneath the radar of the world news, perhaps there may be interesting glimpses of what it means to be fully human.

Unveiling the Truth Behind Good Intentions

In the complexities of human interaction, good intentions often clash with unintended consequences.

In the complexities of human interaction, good intentions often clash with unintended consequences.

Do Spoken Words Create Mental Images in Dogs?

EEG measurements suggest that humans compare seen objects to the mental images evoked by their word labels, and recent data indicates that the same is true for dogs.

EEG measurements suggest that humans compare seen objects to the mental images evoked by their word labels, and recent data indicates that the same is true for dogs.

What Does It Mean to Be a Human?

Humans are unique in their creativeness and their destructiveness. You can tip the balance towards creation and peace for yourself and the world around you.

Humans are unique in their creativeness and their destructiveness. You can tip the balance towards creation and peace for yourself and the world around you.

The Problem of SES in Psychology

SES conceptualizes people as atomized individuals, ignores their common structural positions, and removes socioeconomic privilege from the social relations that produce it.

SES conceptualizes people as atomized individuals, ignores their common structural positions, and removes socioeconomic privilege from the social relations that produce it.

Deep Souls: The Keynote Species of a Thriving Organization

Do you want your organization to deteriorate? Of course not. So it's imperative to build a culture in which deep souls, and innovation, can thrive. Here's how.

Do you want your organization to deteriorate? Of course not. So it's imperative to build a culture in which deep souls, and innovation, can thrive. Here's how.

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What Primitive, Ancient Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

As our understanding of animal intelligence deepens, society faces ethical dilemmas regarding the treatment and rights of even the simplest non-human animals.

As our understanding of animal intelligence deepens, society faces ethical dilemmas regarding the treatment and rights of even the simplest non-human animals.

Emotions and Feelings: Their Slight Variations

Emotions and feelings have long been regarded as similar, yet they have important distinctions.

Emotions and feelings have long been regarded as similar, yet they have important distinctions.

Helping Teens Get the Most From Their Schoolwork

Metacognition, or thinking about how they think, can help teens understand their strengths and weaknesses and the strategies that are most useful to them in specific situations.

Metacognition, or thinking about how they think, can help teens understand their strengths and weaknesses and the strategies that are most useful to them in specific situations.