Key takeaways Simulating war and peace. UCLA cognitive scientist Tao Gao created a computer game to test longstanding theories about why conflicts escalate and how adversaries can reach peaceful settlements.?????? Misunderstanding fuels conflict. His research…
From the American Psychological Association press release: People who struggle to cope with uncertainty or the ambiguity of potential future threats may have an unusually large striatum, an area of the brain already associated with general…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Where does prejudice come from? Not from ideology, say the authors of a new paper. Instead, prejudice stems from a deeper psychological need, associated with a particular…