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Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

Attachment theory —the idea that we develop attachment styles in our early years that then later inform our relationships—was ...

In rigorous tests, Centaur consistently outperformed traditional cognitive models, including Prospect Theory and ...

The new Centaur artificial intelligence (AI) demonstrates an ability to predict human behavior, with an accuracy exceeding ...

Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new ...

Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions ...

The researchers who developed the system, called Centaur, fine-tuned a large language model (LLM) using a massive set of data ...

Consciousness gives rise to a sense of self and personal agency. The question is, how do biological processes give rise to ...

A foundational idea in self-determination theory is that we have three basic psychological needs: for autonomy, competence and relatedness.

How researchers measure the logical reasoning of monkeys, pigeons, rats, fish and wasps shapes how they understand mental ...