A few minutes with a chatbot may be enough to make it seem more mind-like. New research explores why humans start seeing ...

Smell can evoke powerful memories, subtly influence attraction, and even regulate stress. But research suggests that what we sense depends as much on experience as on biology.

A newborn cannot speak, read, or walk. Yet moments after entering the world, the infant brain already responds to rhythm and ...

Human attention does not flow like a steady stream. Instead, it pulses in rapid cycles, with brain oscillations between 7 and ...

A recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition suggests that the human mind treats artificial agents much like real people. Working with an active digital partner tends to lower our conscious ...

Discover 5 puzzles that strengthen memory, focus, and reasoning. From Sudoku to crosswords, these brain games help keep your ...

I had formally predicted — if the time stamp on an email counts as formality — that the bombing of Iran would commence on ...

A new study reveals that your heart rate slows down more when you make a visual mistake than when you see things correctly. This suggests our bodies physically react to perceptual errors in real-time.

We found no strong automatic tendency to see AI or human art as inherently better or worse. This finding tells us that people don’t yet have a knee-jerk reaction or deeply held opinion about AI as ...

The human mind has always fascinated scientists, but the quest to understand psychological behavior has led researchers down some disturbingly dark paths.

I tested Trollishly to see whether boosting engagement metrics would change how my TikTok profile performs. It didn’t create ...

Once upon a time, great psychological thinkers bestrode the earth. William James, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Fred Skinner, ...