How Incentives Hinder Innovation
Imagine you are a CEO intent on increasing your employees’ creativity so that your company can be more innovative.
Psychology
Psychology’s Largest Replication Effort Reveals Low Rates of Reproducibility
During the past three years, 270 researchers from around the world recreated 98 psychology studies from three top journals to see if they could produce the same results.
Searching For Suicide: Can Google Predict Suicide?
In graduate school, I had an engineering friend named Steve who proposed that he and I, a psychologist, team up to create a machine to predict the future.
The Emotions That Make Us More Creative
Artists and scientists throughout history have remarked on the bliss that accompanies a sudden creative insight.
The End of Nature Versus Nurture
How do we become who we are? Traditionally, people’s answers have placed them in one of two camps: nature or nurture. The one says genes determine an individual while the other claims the environment is the linchpin for development.
Google’s Psychedelic Art: This Is Your Computer Brain on Drugs
In the past week, a set of trippy images revealed on Google’s research blog brought the complexity of the human visual system—as simulated by an artificial neural network called GoogLeNet, developed by Google software engineers—to widespread attention.