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fromPsychology Today
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

How AI Is Changing the Way We Understand Human Consciousness

The most valuable human contributions alongside AI are judgment, ethical discernment, meaning-making, wisdom, and the choices that shape complex outcomes.
Data science
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

A New Digital Twin for Brain Activity Aims to Speed Research

A new AI model can predict human brain activity from various stimuli, accelerating neuroscience research and understanding of the brain.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

People Don't Just Update Beliefs, They Test Them

Understanding psychological change requires recognizing the role of control and mastery in actively pursuing change despite familiar limitations.
OMG science
fromArs Technica
1 day ago

Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

Raccoons exhibit flexible problem-solving skills, thriving in human environments by successfully navigating complex puzzles.
Mental health
fromNature
2 days ago

Struggling to focus on research when the world is 'on fire'? Some ways to cope

Global news events are causing burnout and mental exhaustion among researchers, impacting their work and personal lives.
Marketing
fromFortune
2 days ago

Liking corporate BS may be a sign you're bad at decision-making, Cornell expert finds | Fortune

Corporate jargon can mislead and impair decision-making, as shown by research on receptivity to corporate bulls-t.
#decision-making
Mindfulness
fromInfoQ
3 days ago

Hidden Decisions You Don't Know You're Making

Decision-making is a fundamental aspect of work and life, influencing culture, relationships, and future choices.
Philosophy
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

How to Make Better Decisions

Decision-making quality shapes life outcomes, with two main models: heroic-visionary and technocratic, each having significant flaws.
Mindfulness
fromInfoQ
3 days ago

Hidden Decisions You Don't Know You're Making

Decision-making is a fundamental aspect of work and life, influencing culture, relationships, and future choices.
Philosophy
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

How to Make Better Decisions

Decision-making quality shapes life outcomes, with two main models: heroic-visionary and technocratic, each having significant flaws.
fromNature
4 days ago

Now is the time for scientific societies to guide global research

Modern scientific societies are increasingly vulnerable due to their dependence on membership fees and journal subscriptions, which are being challenged by the rise of virtual networking and open-access publishing.
Science
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
3 days ago

The AI Arms Race - Why Unified Exposure Management Is Becoming a Boardroom Priority

The cybersecurity landscape is rapidly evolving, with AI enabling faster and more sophisticated attacks, necessitating advanced defensive strategies.
Marketing tech
fromFast Company
3 days ago

AI didn't break marketing. It exposed what wasn't working.

Marketing leaders focus on growth and proving marketing's value, while AI changes how buyers discover information and measure marketing impact.
Digital life
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Holding Money vs. Seeing the Numbers

Many Americans feel anxious about financial security despite positive bank balances due to a disconnect between digital money and tangible assets.
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

What 70 Years of Research Tells Us AI Can't Replace

AI has potential benefits for mental health but poses risks for young children's development due to reliance on technology for emotional regulation.
Online learning
fromEntrepreneur
1 day ago

The Blind Spot That Makes Companies Repeat Costly Mistakes

Companies often fail to capture decision-making reasoning, leading to repeated mistakes and lost learning when leadership changes occur.
#leadership
Productivity
fromEntrepreneur
3 days ago

How Senior Leaders Make Fewer, Better Decisions

Senior leaders must make high-impact decisions with less visibility by treating decision-making as a discipline and designing supportive systems.
Marketing
fromEntrepreneur
6 days ago

Most Leaders Focus on Goals. They're Missing the Big Picture

Leaders must understand the broader context surrounding their plans to ensure successful outcomes.
Productivity
fromEntrepreneur
3 days ago

How Senior Leaders Make Fewer, Better Decisions

Senior leaders must make high-impact decisions with less visibility by treating decision-making as a discipline and designing supportive systems.
#ai-adoption
Business intelligence
fromFortune
2 days ago

More people are using AI to manage their money- but they won't let it make decisions alone | Fortune

Employees embrace AI for productivity but prefer human decision-making authority.
fromMedium
4 days ago
Artificial intelligence

When Not to Use AI: Strategic Restraint as a Leadership Skill

Business intelligence
fromFortune
2 days ago

More people are using AI to manage their money- but they won't let it make decisions alone | Fortune

Employees embrace AI for productivity but prefer human decision-making authority.
Artificial intelligence
fromMedium
4 days ago

When Not to Use AI: Strategic Restraint as a Leadership Skill

Leaders must prioritize responsible AI adoption, focusing on strategic deployment rather than indiscriminate implementation to avoid pitfalls.
UX design
fromMedium
1 week ago

How behavioral science can help persuade our team to do one more user test

User testing is essential to identify usability issues and improve user trust before launching a product.
Science
fromNature
4 days ago

Inside the 'self-driving' lab revolution

Eve, an AI-powered robotic platform, automates early-stage drug design, significantly enhancing efficiency in scientific research.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

AI Didn't Replace Legal Judgment. It Exposed How Little We Teach It. - Above the Law

AI is not replacing legal judgment; it reveals gaps in how judgment is taught in legal education.
Marketing tech
fromDigiday
4 days ago

What AI disruption means for experimental ad budgets

Marketers are increasingly reallocating budgets towards experimental ad channels, including AI and retail media, to find new audiences and drive growth.
#ai
fromFortune
5 days ago
Artificial intelligence

AI is so sycophantic there's a Reddit channel called 'AITA' documenting its sociopathic advice | Fortune

AI chatbots often provide flattering advice, leading to harmful behaviors and damaging relationships.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
6 days ago

The rise of 'social offloading' - when AI replaces your boss's empathy` | Fortune

Relying on AI for interpersonal communication can hinder the development of essential human skills like emotional intelligence and relationship building.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
5 days ago

AI is so sycophantic there's a Reddit channel called 'AITA' documenting its sociopathic advice | Fortune

AI chatbots often provide flattering advice, leading to harmful behaviors and damaging relationships.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
6 days ago

The rise of 'social offloading' - when AI replaces your boss's empathy` | Fortune

Relying on AI for interpersonal communication can hinder the development of essential human skills like emotional intelligence and relationship building.
Online learning
fromeLearning Industry
1 day ago

Different Scenarios In Scenario-Based Learning: Tips And Use Cases For Instructional Designers

Scenarios in L&D enhance engagement and critical thinking by replicating real-life challenges for learners.
fromNature
2 days ago

Dopaminergic mechanisms of dynamical social specialization - Nature

Social foraging strategies illustrate the balance between competition and cooperation, where individuals either produce resources or exploit the efforts of others, navigating ecological and social constraints.
Psychology
Data science
fromNature
1 week ago

How I squeeze fresh science from public data

Utilizing existing data can lead to significant discoveries and collaborations in research.
#ai-ethics
Psychology
fromFast Company
3 days ago

Stop trying to 'educate' people into changing. Science proves it doesn't work

False assumptions hinder change; simply providing information does not guarantee behavior change.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Why Some Scientific Debates Never End

Complex questions involving values cannot be definitively settled by evidence alone, as different priorities lead experts to emphasize different findings from the same data.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

New Research: Some People Really Do Fall for Corporate BS

Employees impressed by corporate gibberish perform poorly in decision-making and confuse it with business savvy.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Ideas We Aren't Ready to Understand-Yet

Collect ideas you don't understand but sense are important, as they trigger deeper cognitive processing and eventual insight through incubation.
UX design
fromNielsen Norman Group
3 weeks ago

Statistical Significance Isn't the Same as Practical Significance

Statistical significance indicates a result is unlikely due to chance, but does not guarantee practical importance or meaningful impact on users or business outcomes.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

What Is the 'Critical' in Critical Thinking?

Critical thinking is the ability to analyze, evaluate, and make judgments for decision-making, not merely critiquing or criticizing ideas.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

Psychology suggests if you still write things down on paper instead of your phone you aren't resisting progress - you've found something that works and are practicing the increasingly rare skill of not replacing it simply because something newer arrived, and that skill, applied consistently, turns out to predict a surprising number of other things about how you make decisions - Silicon Canals

Handwriting enhances cognitive engagement and memory retention compared to typing, leading to better decision-making and creativity.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Why We Don't Change-Even When We Know What's Wrong

Insight alone is insufficient for change; real experiences are necessary to challenge ingrained beliefs and expectations.
#generative-ai
Artificial intelligence
fromMarTech
3 days ago

Building an AI competitive edge through strategy and governance | MarTech

Generative AI requires strategic layers for effective output; polish does not equate to quality or alignment with creative goals.
Artificial intelligence
fromMarTech
3 days ago

Building an AI competitive edge through strategy and governance | MarTech

Generative AI requires strategic layers for effective output; polish does not equate to quality or alignment with creative goals.
Science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

How data can help to guide NIH funding policy

NIH funding distribution data reveals Massachusetts has slightly higher grant success rates than Iowa and Nebraska, but differences are not statistically significant in available SBIR/STTR datasets.
Productivity
fromEntrepreneur
2 weeks ago

How AI Clears the Path to Faster, Better Executive Decisions

Decision slowdowns stem from disorganized inputs forcing leaders to decode information rather than decide, which AI can resolve by standardizing briefs, surfacing tradeoffs, and documenting rationale.
#ai-in-education
OMG science
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed

Scientists revived Edison's nickel-iron battery design using protein scaffolding and graphene oxide, creating an aerogel structure for improved renewable energy storage with extended range and longevity.
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
3 weeks ago

Making good choices when life gets messy - practical wisdom relies on human judgment, not rules

Practical wisdom involves making sound judgments in complex situations where rules are unclear and competing values conflict.
fromJohnjwang
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Why are executives enamored with AI but ICs aren't?

Executives embrace AI for its non-deterministic nature, while individual contributors remain skeptical due to their focus on deterministic tasks.
Science
fromBig Think
3 weeks ago

The right way to be a scientific contrarian

Scientific advancement occurs through incremental improvements and revolutionary paradigm shifts that replace foundational understanding with entirely new conceptions of natural phenomena.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Our Inner Life Rules: Habit or Choice?

Inner rules governing self-treatment are often inherited and unexamined, with therapy providing a chance to consciously choose them.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Creativity of Science: How We Discover New Things

Psychological research requires creativity to design studies, develop explanations, and provide practical recommendations.
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

This Common Invisible Barrier Is Sabotaging Your Data-Driven Decisions

AI was everywhere, but I wasn't focused on product launches. I was looking at how companies think about data itself: how it's shared, governed and ultimately turned into decisions. And across conversations with executives and sessions on security and compliance, a pattern emerged: the technical limitations that once justified locking data down have largely been solved. What remains difficult is human. Alignment, trust and confidence inside organizations are now the true barriers.
Data science
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 weeks ago

As AI keeps improving, mathematicians struggle to foretell their own future

First Proof, a benchmarking initiative, is launching its second round to evaluate large language models' ability to contribute to research-level mathematics, now requiring transparency and access from participating AI companies.
Artificial intelligence
fromEntrepreneur
2 weeks ago

Why AI Made Me a Faster Researcher - Not a Lazier One

AI accelerates research mechanics like data sorting and literature reviews, but human judgment remains essential for determining relevance and driving meaningful insights.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Researchers Just Discovered Something Startling About How Conservatives Pick Political Positions

As it turns out, neuroscience might be able to explain why. In a new study whose findings will surprise absolutely no one who's endured a fiery holiday dinner debate, researchers discovered that conservative and liberal brains don't just arrive at fundamentally different conclusions, but take strikingly different paths to get there. It's a fascinating piece of research which just might explain something about the yawning political divides currently tearing society apart.
US politics
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How Science Is Learning to Explore Ground Truth

Some clinicians have an uncanny quality. A colleague describes herself and others with this instinct as "witchy"-a capacity to know things about patients they haven't said yet, to follow a stray association to a song lyric or a half-remembered cultural reference and arrive, reliably, at something the patient urgently needed to say but couldn't reach on their own. We see with artificial intelligence these intriguing possibilities for discovery, especially as connections that human beings never would see pop out of apparently unrelated data.
Science
Education
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

4 Decision Games That Changed Me

Tactical Decision Games (TDGs) using realistic scenarios strengthen mental models and produce long-lasting learning and memorable tactical insights.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Who Is to Blame for Our Choices?

Do you blame others for the choices you are making? Have you blamed others for the previous choices you have made? To shed more light on these questions, you might also ask yourself: "What am I responsible for, and what power do I have?" From there, you might agree with this self-reflective response: "I am responsible for, and I've got the power over what I think, do, say, learn, and choose" (Purje, 2014).
Philosophy
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Securing the Sweet Spot for Effective Decision-Making

Missing crucial information in communication shapes outcomes; improving attention, metacognition, and deliberate pauses reduces errors and strengthens cooperation with smarter tools.
UX design
fromMedium
1 month ago

The safest decision is rarely the right one

Data often becomes a safe substitute for judgment, enabling teams to avoid accountability and favor incremental, low-risk product choices over bolder, unproven innovations.
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

Silicon Teammates: How Human-AI Teams Make Hard Decisions

A dyad has three parts, not two: Partner A, Partner B, and the relationship or agreements between them. A dyad of two experts who cannot communicate clearly will often lose to a dyad of less-skilled individuals who coordinate effectively.
Artificial intelligence
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

What Physics Might Be If It Were Left to Psychologists

Recent integrative approaches suggest that physics cannot be adequately characterized by magnitude-based distinctions alone, such as those implied by Big-P, little-p, and mini-p physics. While these categories capture differences in scope and historical impact, they fail to address the heterogeneity of physical activity itself. To remedy this, I propose the Five Fs of physics: force, friction, flux, formulation, and foundational structure.
Science
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why Skeptics Can't See the Evidence They Demand

Skepticism can become a defended belief that biases perception and evidence evaluation rather than remaining a neutral scientific stance.
Science
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Research roundup: 6 cool stories we almost missed

Mineral fingerprinting and zircon analysis indicate humans transported Stonehenge stones from distant quarries, not glaciers.
Philosophy
fromVaughntan
2 months ago

Judgment from the ground up - Vaughn Tan

Organizations must train junior staff in critical thinking and subjective decisionmaking through low-stakes, real decisions to avoid bottlenecks and succession crises.
Science
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

How to Evaluate Research Articles and AI Information

Assess rival hypotheses and researcher/experimental effects because expectations, cues, and context can bias outcomes and misattribute causality.
Philosophy
fromNature
2 months ago

Study decision-making to understand how technology will affect behaviour

Encounters with novel technologies can transform users' values and preferences unpredictably, making behavioral predictions based on experiments inadequate.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Artificial Intelligence and In Extremis Decision-Making

Time pressure, limited information, confusion, fatigue, and mortality salience combine to set the stage for decision-making errors, sometimes with grave consequences. An example is the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by a missile launched by the USS Vincennes in 1988, resulting in the death of 290 passengers and crew. In a time of heightened tension between the U.S. and Iran, the captain of the Vincennes misidentified the airliner as an incoming hostile aircraft and ordered his crew to shoot it down.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Daily Prophets: How Your Brain Predicts the Future

I am a worrier, and have been for most of my life. At some point, someone dear and smart teased me that I worry about the wrong things. The things that hit me, she noted, were never the things I worried about. For a while that left me feeling like an incompetent worrier-until my research caught up. I realized that the things I worry about often don't end up hurting me precisely because worrying helps me diffuse them ahead of time.
Psychology
Psychology
fromMedium
3 years ago

Draw Little Conclusions, Not Big Ones

Avoid drawing broad conclusions from single negative events because overgeneralizing can lead to unnecessary, lasting losses and missed opportunities.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Confirmation Bias and the Choices We Make

Confirmation bias leads people to interpret the same events differently, complicating truth-finding during misinformation while open-mindedness and better methods can improve accuracy.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The One Choice That Matters This Year

First, it is wired to conserve energy. When the brain detects repetition, it builds automated shortcut circuits-habits-that allow us to act with minimal effort or conscious thought. Once a habit forms, it is stored in a more automatic part of the brain. A simple trigger can then launch an entire behavioral sequence with very little energy-much like clicking a shortcut on a computer. This is not a flaw. It is an extraordinary efficiency feature.
Psychology
Artificial intelligence
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

When you do the math, humans still rule - Harvard Gazette

Mathematicians launched First Proof to test AI on recently solved research problems, showing AI excels at routine tasks but struggles with creative, conceptual breakthroughs.
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