Social cohesion is the glue that holds society together. Now the bonds are breaking, and polarization has been growing for years. Educational programmes aimed at strengthening social cohesion by promoting greater tolerance very often focus…
Publishing August 6th in the Cell Press journal iScience, scientists outline how they developed a method for generating personality assessment questionnaires with ChatGPT from any source text. To test the method, they applied it to…
From the University of Illinois media release: Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign have uncovered evidence that could reshape how researchers think about both the brain and artificial intelligence. Their findings suggest that…
From the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics media release: Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone — it is constantly trying to guess the next word when we are listening…
From the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology press release: Directing a meeting, dialing up an old acquaintance, dictating the perfect tuna salad sandwich across a drive-through window. For business and for pleasure, human…
From the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology press release: Children learn a huge number of words in the early preschool years. A two-year-old might be able to say just a handful of words, while…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but…
From the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry press release: The University of Alberta-led research followed more than 400 infants from the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) at its Edmonton site. Boys with a…
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: To understand the world, we arrange individual objects, people, and events into different categories or concepts. Concepts such as ‘the telephone’ consist…
From the University of Waterloo press release: Doublespeak, or the use of euphemisms to sway opinion, lets leaders avoid the reputational costs of lying while still bringing people around to their way of thinking, a…