Psychology & Behaviour
Cognition, decision-making, motivation and human behaviour.
Beyond the Easy Button: Understanding the AI Impact on Human Psychology and Skill Development
An expanded exploration of AI's impact on human psychology, learning, scaffolding, and the vital role of cognitive struggle in education and professional development—grounded in recent campus debates and MIT's 2026 assessment of AI in education.
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Beyond the Model Weights: How PBH Applied Systems Makes GGUF Quantization Deployment-Ready
PBH Applied Systems publishes evaluated, quantized open-weight GGUF models and behavioral evidence to help teams plan practical AI edge infrastructure and reliable self-hosted inference.
The Psychology of Human-Robot Collaboration: Why Cognitive Science Accelerates Teaming
An expanded and refined analysis of how applying psychology and cognitive science accelerates human-robot collaboration, reducing cognitive load and improving team fluency.
The Deep AI Impact on Human Psychology: When Flawed Video Summaries Implant False Memories
Expanded research report on how misleading AI video summaries dropped eyewitness recall from 83.6% to 44.8% in a Georgetown and University of Washington study — and what the result reveals about the AI impact on human psychology, what AI in psychology means, and whether AI can understand human psychology at all.
The AI Impact on Human Psychology: You Can Now Argue a Position You Haven't Chosen Yet
AI hands you polished arguments for stances you haven't adopted yet. The psychological research on agency, reactive co-writing, and preference formation suggests something uncomfortable is happening to how we form beliefs.
AI's Impact on Human Psychology: Why Celebrity Grief Still Feels Personal
When a beloved public figure dies, the grief surprises us. Parasocial psychology explains why — and how AI is reshaping the bonds underneath.
The AI Impact on Human Psychology Looks Different Under a Microscope
New research links adolescent stress to mitochondrial gene changes in the prefrontal cortex — and reframes what "understanding" means when AI meets human psychology.
Mapping the Mind: The AI Impact on Human Psychology and Externalized Cognition
How AI and everyday tools shape cognitive offloading, memory, metacognition, and what people think they know.
AI Impact on Human Psychology Runs Through an Ancient Mirror Effect
New research from the University of Illinois shows that people judge others primarily by reflecting on their own behavior, not by observing social norms. This finding complicates how we think about competitive dynamics — and what happens when AI systems model or amplify them.
AI Impact on Human Psychology: When Chatbots Fuel Metaphysical Delusions
A parent watches a son spiral into a grandiose chatbot obsession. Examining the insight gap in AI delusions, egosyntonic beliefs, and why endless digital validation can derail human psychology.
Two Gs, Two Different Problems
Psychology's g and AI's g share a letter but not a meaning. The coincidence reveals something important about what each field actually measures.
Cognition Under Siege: Why Falling IQ Scores and Social Media Are More Connected Than You Think
IQ scores are declining across developed nations. New research from Psychology Today and cognitive literacy researchers points to social media-driven attentional fragmentation and the death of deep reading as primary culprits.