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APS Board Welcomes Researchers Advancing Diverse Scholarship
Alison Gopnik, Rachael Jack, Tania Lombrozo, and EJ Wagenmakers lead research efforts in children’s development, cognitive modeling, and more.
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Rage Against the Machines
New findings signal the complexities that robots and artificial intelligence create for workplace accountability.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion
At a remote outpost in the mountainous highlands of Papua New Guinea, a young American psychologist named Paul Ekman arrived with a collection of flash cards and a new theory. It was 1967, and Ekman had
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on the risk for alcohol use disorder, language comprehension in children with autism, varied skills, primate vocal communication, the importance of the context for child development, and the role of robots in understanding the human mind.
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A Cloudy Future: Why We Don’t Trust Algorithms When They’re Almost Always Right
Researchers explore our preference for human skill and instinct over technologies that have proven themselves better than us at driving, performing surgery, and making hiring decisions.
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A Cloudy Future: Why We Don’t Trust Algorithms When They’re Almost Always Right
What explains our preference for human skill and instinct over technologies that have proven themselves better than us at driving, performing surgery, and making hiring decisions?
