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Abstract This article is a response to the views expressed by Masanori Takezawa and Ryo Oda in "Adventures Around Classical ...

We introduce interesting papers on human behavior and decision-making from the fields of behavioral economics and psychology.

The inquiry into human consciousness is, in many ways, the Holy Grail of this Global Spirit series. Just remember, for ...

Research has revealed a relationship between loneliness and sleep. One possible reason is a hypervigilance to social threats ...

Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job ...

Many years ago, evolutionary psychologist Nick Humphrey met a family in Turkey with eight children who were unable to walk upright. Due to a genetic disease, they could only get around on all fours.

Smarter people may judge themselves more harshly. A psychologist explains 2 self-critical habits, from underrating your looks to saying ‘I don’t know.’ ...

Why are some people drawn to manipulative or even violent partners? In a study of 400 Brazilian adults, those with darker ...

A fascinating study asks whether simple AI agents are capable of true play, and whether human play might have come about the same way.

If you were alive in the 1980s and '90s, then you remember the glory days of fruit snacks. Some of them were gummy. Some of ...

For decades, scientists thought that in order to read other people's emotions, the brain processed sensory information from faces and voices in separate areas. But new research shows otherwise—seeing ...