AI leaders boast about their models’ superhuman technical abilities. The technology can predict protein structures, create ...

Recently, evidence derived from cognitive dissonance theory has been criticized, leading some to suggest that dissonance is not a thing. This post addresses those criticisms.

Beyond the immediate effects of exposure, there is also evidence that nature may shape the brain over longer timescales. Structural MRI studies suggest that living in greener areas is associated with ...

Research in health psychology has increasingly highlighted the pivotal role that executive functions play in human health and wellbeing. Executive ...

AI hasn't eliminated bottlenecks. It has relocated them from execution to judgment: strategy, synthesis, architectural ...

Working as Noam Chomsky’s assistant, and in later years his fellow traveler, the lessons I learned spanned various domains and disciplines, but most valuably, I got to know Noam beyond the pedestal ...

Noam Chomsky remains the world's most-cited living scholar with over 300,000 citations. His latest data shows a rising global demand for mental resilience. "The only way to deal with fear is to ...

When I saw “Data,” a zippy Off Broadway play about the ethical crises of employees at a Palantir-like A.I. company, last month, I was struck by its prescience. It’s about a brilliant, conflicted ...

The cover of "The Other Side of Change" and author Maya Shankar. (Courtesy of Riverhead Books and Kirsten Lara Getchell) Change is one of life's inevitabilities, but our brains aren’t wired to like ...

Noam Chomsky's wife is acknowledging "serious errors in judgment" in the wake of new revelations about the couple's ties to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Valeria Chomsky also says she and ...

Read full article: 50+ mph winds possible in Metro Detroit with rain, snow into the afternoon -- what to know “Noam and I recognize the gravity of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and the profound suffering ...