cognitive psychologists

Cognitive psychologists might call it loss aversion — the all-too-human tendency to prefer avoiding losses than acquiring equivalent gains. Us simpler folk would understand it as a reluctance to admit you were wrong, which is why I'm hanging onto those $10 shares now trading for pennies in a vain hope of ...

Results of a new study by cognitive psychologist and speech scientist Alexandra Jesse and her linguistics undergraduate student Michael Bartoli at the University of Massachusetts Amherst should help to settle a long-standing disagreement among cognitive psychologists about the information we use to ...

So it can come as a surprise to learn that cognitive psychologists have a different take on the issue. Various studies point to the conclusion that subjecting the mind to formal discipline — as when studying geometry or Latin — does not, in general, engender a broad transfer of learning. There is no sweeping ...

She said as cognitive psychologists, the researchers were particularly interested in the mechanisms of attention and perception. "We found that people who tended towards neuroticism paid more attention to the left side of a picture, and those with traits related to schizophrenia looked less often at the top of ...

When I was 18, Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth shaped my ideas about sex, attractiveness, and life as a woman. To summarize: It's all controlled by men! So I was alarmed to learn that the influential feminist scholar has turned to shaping ideas about who controls the weather — specifically, by tweeting ...

Did you answer “whale” to the first question and “two” to the second? Most people do … even though they're well aware that it was Noah, not Moses who built the ark in the biblical story. Psychologists like me call this phenomenon the Moses Illusion. It's just one example of how people are very bad at ...

Cognitive psychologists coined the term Executive Function (EF) after World War II to explain why those with brain damage had difficulty learning and changing their behavior even when current conditions screamed for a new strategy. Exactly what EF is continues to be debated among cognitive and ...

Pinker, who is a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, includes facts like the global average IQ score is steadily rising and we're less likely to die on the job then we were several decades ago. Gates wrote: "I read the book slowly since I loved it so much, but I think most people will find it a quick and accessible ...

Mehr and Singh are cognitive psychologists. They asked a sample of cognitive psychologists to predict whether respondents would successfully categorize the songs. About 72 percent predicted they would. Among ethnomusicologists, only 29 percent predicted the identifications would be accurate.

She was beloved and revered by a whole generation of cognitive psychologists whose work she inspired.” Anne Marie Taylor was born Feb. 27, 1935, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in England. She was interested in science as a child but studied modern and medieval languages at the University of Cambridge.

... or just bad memory? Two cognitive psychologists unravel the mystery of the 'Mandela effect' ... When cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory Elizabeth Loftus applied the technique to larger samples, 25 per cent of participants failed to recognise the event was false. Incorrect recall. When it ...

But they're not the only inscrutable thinking machines. Simply poking around in the human brains they are modeled on yields few clues as to how people reason either, and so over the years, cognitive psychologists have developed tests designed to probe our mental faculties. Now DeepMind has built a ...

My colleague Tracie White recently wrote about cognitive psychologist Ruth O'Hara's research on worrying and its impact on cognition, memory and effective disorders in older adults. As White described: Worrying actually helps alleviate the negative effects on memory and cognitive processing caused by ...

And when I asked cognitive psychologist Marisca Milikowski, an expert in people's knowledge of numbers, she said she'd noticed it too. "Many of these numbers, they're really nice," she says to me while discussing the above examples, all of which recently showed up in my Authenticator app. "I mean, look ...

We create mental models of others based on our past experiences, and these models influence any new encounters, whether we are conscious of them or not. Cognitive psychologist Jeffrey Zacks, in his book "Flicker: Your Brain on Movies," offers this fascinating idea that can be either disturbing or offer ...

If you had the option of saving five lives by pushing one person into an oncoming train, what would you do? If asked this question in your native language, you'd likely refuse to make the shove, studies have shown. But if the question was posed in a foreign tongue, you'd more easily conclude that five lives ...