Here at the end of the Fall-2015 semester, I have been reflecting on my students one-new-thought papers. To set-up those papers, I ask students to describe the one-new-thought about interpersonal ...

Researchers showed that large language models use a small, specialized subset of parameters to perform Theory-of-Mind reasoning, despite activating their full network for every task.

Dream expert G. William Domhoff, a distinguished professor emeritus and a research professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz, has spent decades chasing the riddle of dreams and their meaning. Now, with ...

Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.

There's a fun game I play at the start of behavioral economics workshops I do with senior investment bankers. It's called the Ultimatum Game, and it never fails to produce surprises. It goes like this ...

Chimps know what tools others need to get work done and can help them select the right instruments, suggesting the apes have the ability to understand the minds of others, scientists find. The ...