People Favor Highly-Reviewed Products, Even When They Shouldn’t
We often rely on the ratings and reviews of others to help us choose a product or service, but we sometimes use this information in ways that can actually work to our disadvantage… More
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Abilities Seem to Reinforce Each Other in Adolescence
Scientists from Cambridge, London, and Berlin directly compared different proposed explanations for the phenomenon of ‘general intelligence’ and how it develops over time… More
New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring associative learning of social value in groups and age-related changes in performance as a function of experience instead of cognitive decline… More
New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring how children balance informativeness and ease of production when talking and how free choice influences the costs associated with searching for multiple objects… More
Believing the Future Will Be Favorable May Prevent Action
Findings from a series of studies show that people tend to believe others will come around to their point of view over time, a trend that holds across various contexts and cultures… More
Suddenly Language: Lila R. Gleitman on the Evolution of an Innate Human Trait
Scientists have no hard evidence of how human language evolved, but Lila R. Gleitman illustrates some of the clues that can be gleaned from observing children as they develop their language skills. … More