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Malia Mason
Columbia University, USA http://www.maliamason.com/ What does your research focus on? My research focuses on two distinct areas of inquiry. First, I examine how the mind manages itself, with a particular focus on understanding how people Visit Page
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Gary Lupyan
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA http://sapir.psych.wisc.edu/ What does your research focus on? I am interested in the cognitive functions of language. Apart from being used to communicate our ideas, how does speaking a language shape Visit Page
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Tal Yarkoni
University of Colorado at Boulder http://talyarkoni.org What does your research focus on? Most of my current research focuses on what you might call psychoinformatics: the application of information technology to psychology, with the aim of Visit Page
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Yanchao Bi
Beijing Normal University, China http://psychbrain.bnu.edu.cn/home/yanchaobi What does your research focus on? My current research focuses on the functional and neural architecture of concepts — the meaning of words, pictures, and sounds. What drew you to Visit Page
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People Don’t Just Think with Their Guts; Logic Plays a Role Too
For decades, science has suggested that when people make decisions, they tend to ignore logic and go with the gut. But Wim De Neys, a psychological scientist at the University of Toulouse in France, has Visit Page
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Why we make bad decisions
Salon: What role do our surroundings have in the choices we make? Consider the fact that we are more likely to commit a “random” act of kindness toward a person who has already done something Visit Page
