Psychology & Behaviour
Cognition, decision-making, motivation and human behaviour.
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.
When AI Makes the Analogy—and Where Human-Inspired Models Still Differ
UCLA researchers compared GPT-3 and GPT-4 with human participants on analogy and pattern-reasoning tasks, while also benchmarking their own cognition-inspired model. Evidence shows striking strengths alongside failures and ongoing debate over whether performance constitutes genuine zero-shot reasoning.
The AI Impact on Human Psychology: When Algorithms Infer Your Mental Health From Digital Breadcrumbs
Machine-learning systems can now read mental-health signals from the posts, chats, and clicks we leave behind. What that AI impact on human psychology means for privacy, boundaries, and the right not to be inferred.
Rewriting the Internal Narrative: The Science and Skepticism of Self-Affirmations
Comprehensive article exploring the science and skepticism of self-affirmations, neural mechanisms, behavioral outcomes, and the AI impact on human psychology.
Cognitive Biases in Leadership: Why Checklists Can't Do the Work
Social-media leadership checklists show visible behaviors, but sound leadership depends on the hidden work of testing assumptions, weighing context, and learning from others.
Why the AI Impact on Human Psychology Matters as Corporate Adoption Levels Off
Ramp's transaction data shows corporate AI adoption plateauing at 41%. But the deeper story isn't about spend — it's about how the measurement gap and failed pilots are reshaping how humans relate to AI tools in the workplace.
Predicting Human Decisions with Behavioral Theories: What Serotonin and the 75% Confidence Threshold Reveal About Patience
New research on dorsal raphe serotonin neurons shows patience isn't a fixed trait—it depends on reward probability and timing confidence. Here's what that means for behavioral economics and why SSRIs work better alongside therapy.
The AI Overconfidence Trap: Why Smarter Users Misjudge Their Skills Most
New research from Aalto University reveals that using ChatGPT reverses the Dunning-Kruger effect, leaving AI-literate users most vulnerable to overconfidence and cognitive offloading.
The AI Impact on Human Psychology: How the Study of the Mind Built the Machine
Psychology gave artificial intelligence its blueprint — from Hebbian learning to reinforcement learning to attention mechanisms. But can AI understand the very psychology it borrowed?
Beyond Moral Panic: Behavioral Health Technology and the Effort Recalibration Framework
Comprehensive article on the effort recalibration framework in digital media use and cognition, integrating behavioral health technology and cognitive health perspectives.
The Illusion of Empathy and the AI General Intelligence Definition
Gathered verified research and structured notes exploring whether AI can understand humans without consciousness, examining artificial empathy, companion chatbots, and psychological projection.
The AI Impact on Human Psychology: Why Flourishing Demands We Rethink Our Tools
A psychology-informed look at how AI may shape cognition, relationships, agency, and meaning—and practical ways to use technology in support of human flourishing.