When Robots Paint: How Will We Decide if AI Art Is Art?
Qualities like intention and essence factor into our decision to deem something “art.” How does AI-generated art align—or not—with what we feel art should be?
February 02nd, 2025
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December 16th, 2024
Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Books of 2024
Our list of noteworthy behavioral science books published in 2024.
June 05th, 2024
Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2024
The summer book list is a chance to peruse a collection of the most compelling behavioral science books published so far this year.
May 21st, 2024
How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms
When we turn to algorithms for recommendations instead of asking friends or going down hard-won cultural rabbit holes, what do we give up?
December 20th, 2023
Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Books of 2023
Our list of noteworthy behavioral science books published in 2023.
September 04th, 2023
The Surprising Origins of Our Obsession with Creativity
We tend to assume creativity is a timeless human value. But creativity as the concept we know today emerged in the 1950s and ’60s, driven by the needs of the modern corporation.
July 10th, 2023
Who Decides What a New Planet Looks Like? It’s an Artist, Not a Telescope
Discovering new planets is an imaginative process. Astronomers can decipher a planet’s weight and temperature, but it takes an artist to interpret the numbers into a place we can imagine and understand.
June 05th, 2023
Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2023
The summer book list is a chance to peruse a collection of the most compelling behavioral science books published so far this year.
February 13th, 2023
How Winning (or Losing) a Grammy Changes the Music Artists Make
Recent research shows how winning a Grammy can spark innovation, but losing one can snuff it out.
September 03rd, 2019
How to Go to Burning Man Without Going to Burning Man
You don’t have to suffer through a dust storm to experience radical inclusion, generosity, and self-expression. How one behavioral scientist brought Burning Man home.
