For decades, psychologists have argued over a basic question. Can one grand theory explain the human mind, or do attention, ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, TU Berlin, and the University of Eastern Finland set out to ...

Forget the hype about AI "solving" human cognition, new research suggests unified models like Centaur are just overfitted "black boxes" that fail to understand basic instructions.

How does a neuroscientific biological perspective explain behavior? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand ...

During the pandemic, a lot of assumptions were made about how people behave. Many of those assumptions were wrong, and they led to disastrous policies. Several governments worried that their pandemic ...

Plato, in his quot,e says human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. The quote means that ...

Doha, February 02, 2026: Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) has launched the UNESCO Chair in Digital Technologies and Human ...

Our behavior seems to be built by evolution, and it's sometimes paradoxical. To borrow from the hard sciences, our behavior exhibits complementarity. We are largely felicitous to our family and ...

When you try to understand people and explain why they do what they do, what frame do you use? The most common, intuitive (and highly useful) approach is the “belief-desire” frame. That is, people in ...

I explore why human behavior can sometimes be cruel, based on real-life examples.