Humans are evolutionarily drawn to beauty. How do such complex experiences emerge from a collection of atoms and molecules?
You cannot simply trust a language model when it tells you how it feels. Words can be misleading, and it is all too easy to mistake fluent speech for fluent thought.
This decade-old book is especially relevant now.
Our visual system sometimes sacrifices accuracy for the sake of a smooth visual experience of the world around us.
The virus in our heads - and Trump's - and more as the culture churns.
The American Psychological Association expressed shock and outrage that the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement has been sharing confidential psychotherapy notes with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deny asylum to some immigrant youth.
We should apply science to the problem of mass shootings. The Senate should pass the House bill funding research on gun violence, and the country should stop scapegoating people who suffer from mental illness.
The Problem With America's College Entrance Exam. Bernie Sanders Sits Down With Rachel Maddow. Feelings for Reasons | Baba Brinkman. Mitch McConnell's Challenger Mimics Joe Manchin. Sheryl Crow - Everything Is Broken (Audio) ft. Jason Isbell.
A new rap video on the evolutionary origins of emotions and mental illness. Based on the recent book Good Reasons for Bad Feelings (check out this Patreon post on the topic).
By 2010, the evidence about how interrogations can go wrong had become so compelling that Kassin and several colleagues from the U.S. and U.K. wrote an American Psychological Association white paper warning about the risk of coercion.
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