Psychology & Behaviour
Cognition, decision-making, motivation and human behaviour.
The Hierarchy Shift: How Relationships Rewrite Reciprocity
An exploration of how small adjustments in perceived relationship hierarchy alter the cognitive strategies we use to manage reciprocal generosity, moving from transactional bookkeeping to path-dependent norms.
Your Face, Your Sentence: How Parole Boards Judge You Before You Speak
New research reveals that parole boards and jurors unconsciously rely on facial cues—like perceived criminality or remorse—to judge future risk, despite no empirical link between looks and behavior.
Some Friendships Are Meant for a Chapter—Not a Lifetime
Why letting go of once-meaningful friendships isn’t failure—it’s integrity. A look at how shared context dissolves, and why nostalgia needn’t keep us tethered to outdated roles.
When AI Pays Attention, It's Not Thinking—It's Calculating
Why AI attention is calculation, not consciousness.
When the World Overheats: How Rising Heat Events Are Rewiring Human Judgment
As extreme heat events become more frequent worldwide, new research reveals how scorching temperatures impair cognitive function, decision-making, and impulse control with deadly consequences on roads and in daily life.
The Success Trap: When Past Wins Become Future Losses
Leaders often struggle to see how the strategies that once fueled success can become barriers to future growth. This article explores the psychology behind why past successes turn into liabilities and what leaders can do about it.
Everything Is Connected: Reclaiming Human Agency in an AI-Mediated World
As AI reshapes cognition, connection, and climate, we must move from passive consumption to intentional stewardship—using the ABCD framework and ProSocial AI to become active architects of our hybrid future.
The CA1 Core Hub: The Hippocampus Memory Switchboard Unveiled
New research reveals that approximately one in four memory cells within the cornus ammonis 1 (CA1) region of the hippocampus function as a core hub, integrating signals from multiple pathways to orchestrate precise memory encoding and retrieval. This discovery reshapes our understanding of how the hippocampus serves as the brain's central memory switchboard.
When Machines Tell Us What We Want to Hear, Why Bother With Humans?
How AI sycophancy undermines psychological growth, tolerance for dissent, and the essential role of social friction in interpersonal development.
Beyond Resilience: Training Cognitive Agility Through Meditation
Explore how daily meditation practices beyond stress reduction significantly improve key professional cognitive skills like working memory, focused attention, and rapid decision-making.
Reclaiming the Warm Season: How the Five-Part 'Play Diet' Balances Summer Screen Habits
Escape the endless scroll this summer. Discover the five categories of play—social, physical, creative, free, and digital—and learn how to cultivate real-world independence while setting healthy digital limits.
93% Certain It Wasn’t Him: How a Florida Man Was Framed by an Algorithm and a Detective’s Confirmation Bias
Robert Dillon spent months in legal purgatory after police ignored his alibi, suppressed LPR data, and leaned on a flawed photo lineup—all because an AI missed its mark.