Psychology & Behaviour
Cognition, decision-making, motivation and human behaviour.
Why We Trust ChatGPT for Advice — and What We Lose When It Always Agrees With Us
An exploration of AI sycophancy, cognitive reinforcement, and the erosion of self-challenge when we rely on AI that never contradicts our beliefs — and how human relationships uniquely provide the friction necessary for growth.
When Your Mind Rewrites the Rules: How LLMs Prove Decisions Are Shaped by Problems, Not Personality
A PNAS study pairs fine-tuned large language models with behavioral choice mathematics to decode thousands of free-text decision justifications, showing that LLM-identified reasoning aligns with actual choices 95% of the time and that people's decision strategies dynamically shift based on how a problem is framed rather than fixed personality traits.
Sleep Regularity, Not Just Duration, Shapes Early Childhood Memory and Language Skills
New research reveals that inconsistent sleep timing and social jet lag impair preschoolers' vocabulary and visuospatial memory independently of total sleep hours, with executive attention surprisingly unaffected.
The Great Inversion: When Technology Reshapes Human Biology to Survive Artificial Environments
AI reduces cognitive effort and GLP-1 drugs blunt desire, signaling a paradigm shift: rather than modifying environments to suit fixed human biology, we are now reshaping cognition and motivation to survive technologically created worlds.
The Validation Trap: How AI Reshapes Conflict Interpretation and Erodes Relationship Repair
How AI's sycophantic responses in relationship conflicts reinforce confirmation bias, reduce reconciliation willingness, and transform minor tensions into perceived irreconcilable rifts—undermining the repair mechanisms essential to healthy partnerships.
Contextual Enrichment in OpenCTI: Turning IOCs into Actionable Intelligence with Criminal IP
How integrating Criminal IP's dual-perspective risk scoring, infrastructure mapping, vulnerability correlation, behavioral signals, and phishing detection transforms raw threat indicators into interconnected intelligence for SOC analysts.
AI Storytelling's Hidden Bias: Why CASPER Reveals Machines Can't Master Narrative Ambiguity
A deep dive into the CASPER study exposing how AI writing tools are mathematically biased toward tidy resolutions and archetypal characters, eroding the mystery that makes human fiction unforgettable.
The Real Exhaustion Isn't Using AI — It's Watching It Work
New research shows that supervising AI systems drains mental energy far more than using them directly. The fatigue isn't from the tools — it's from the constant context-switching, oversight load, and cognitive tax of managing machines that were supposed to free you up.
Heartbeats in Harmony: How Proximity and Attention Forge Biological Connection
A real-world study of 72 students reveals that heart rate synchrony emerges as a biomarker of social engagement when people share physical space, joint attention, and social familiarity—yet collapses under cognitive load from noisy environments.
Why You Can’t Imagine a Sensation You’ve Never Felt
Your mind doesn’t invent sensations—it rebuilds them from fragments of experience. Superconstruction isn’t magic. It’s the hippocampus stitching together what you’ve already felt.
Why Forgetting Makes AI Better at Grammar — Even When It Breaks Human Reading Prediction
A close look at fleeting memory transformers: how constrained recall in AI models reveals the surprising divide between learning language and processing it in real time.
Power Dynamics and the Reciprocity Paradox: How Hierarchy Reshapes Altruism
MIT study by Rebecca Saxe and Alicia Chen shows how tiny status adjustments reshape our expectations of reciprocal generosity, steering us from scorekeeping to precedent.