Psychologist and Behavioral Economist awarded MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius Grants’
Angela Duckworth and Colin Camerer were two of the twenty-four MacArthur Fellowship recipients, announced yesterday by the MacArthur Foundation.
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When a Theory is Too Good to Be True: Fallacies in Perception Research
Over the past few decades, research in the fields of perception and psychophysics has seemingly demonstrated that our vision is inherently tied to the current psychological, emotional, or physical state of our body.
Conversation: George Slavich on Human Social Genomics
For a while science and society has understood the relationship between our genes and our environment as the story of genetic potential.
The Ubiquity of Metaphor
Across all cultures and languages, humans use metaphors to describe diverse concepts such as time, crime, emotions, and motion. But metaphors are more than just eloquent descriptions.