Psychology & Behaviour
Cognition, decision-making, motivation and human behaviour.
The Quiet Erosion: Reclaiming Cognitive Autonomy from AI
As AI models become tightly woven into the architecture of daily work and governance, a silent form of dependency—hybrid sovereignty—is emerging. This exploration examines the threats this dependency poses to national institutions and personal cognitive autonomy, offering a path to maintain independent judgment in an AI-mediated world. For more on the risks of autonomous systems, see The $1 Trillion Startup Warns: AI Models Nearing Capability to Improve Without Human Oversight and Securing Autonomous Agents: The New CISO Challenge. (Keywords: hybrid sovereignty, cognitive autonomy, AI dependency, AI governance, autonomous systems).
Hierarchical Shifts and the Erosion of Reciprocal Generosity
Explores how modifying relationship hierarchies impacts behavioral expectations and the decay of altruistic reciprocity.
Navigating Our AI-Mediated Future: A Proactive Hybrid Approach
An exploration of how AI shapes our cognitive and social landscapes and why a proactive, hybrid intelligence framework is essential for meaningful human impact.
The Paradox of Effort
Some goals become harder to achieve the more directly we pursue them. An exploration of the psychological and strategic paradox of why indirect effort often yields superior results.
The Proactive Human in an AI-Mediated World
Navigating the complexity of an AI-mediated world requires proactive human agency and a hybrid intelligence approach. Discover more about Hybrid Sovereignty and AI Deskilling. This article explores the ABCD risks—agency decay, bond erosion, climate conundrum, and divided society—and introduces the POZE framework for cultivating a prosocial A-Frame mindset.
The Hippocampal CA1 Hub: Balancing Memory Plasticity and Stability
New research reveals how hippocampal CA1 neurons act as a switchboard, using divergent firing patterns to process incoming and outgoing memory signals without erasing past knowledge.
Complete Fruit Fly Central Nervous System Connectome Reveals Decentralized Motor Control
Researchers publish the first complete fruit fly central nervous system connectome, proving motor control is distributed in local modules rather than directed by a central brain hub.
Technology Makes Things Easier, But Can Undermine Our Growth: The Power of Embracing Challenge
Technology makes some things easier, but it can also undermine our growth. If you want to stay sharp, retain your knowledge, and hone your creativity, challenge yourself.
Siri's Two-Year Silence Was the Real Story of WWDC 2026
Apple Intelligence dominated WWDC 2026, but Siri's two-year delay and the company's silence around its AI overhaul told a deeper story about trust, expectations, and what happens when the world's most private tech company finally speaks up.
Artificial Intelligence for Inspired Action: Navigating Our AI-Mediated World with Purpose
Everything is connected and affected in an AI-mediated environment. This article explores the four key risks reshaping human psychology—agency decay, bond erosion, climate conundrum, and divided society—and introduces the POZE framework for ProSocial AI that amplifies human flourishing.
The Psychology of Women and Girls in STEM
Explore the psychological factors influencing women's and girls' participation, retention, and success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
AI and the Risk of Synchronized Blindness
AI homogenizes how we think, leaving critical outliers unrecognized and warnings unheard. When billions make the same cognitive trade simultaneously, diversity of perception disappears.