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Remembering Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Mark Johnson University of Cambridge and Birkbeck, University of London Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago APS Past Board Member Annette Karmiloff-Smith passed away on 19 December 2016, and psychological science lost a brilliant developmental
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Making the Case for Prediction Over Explanation
Machine learning allows us to build models that predict future behavior instead of simply explaining past behavior.
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People Favor Highly-Reviewed Products, Even When They Shouldn’t
We often rely on the ratings and reviews of others to help us choose a product or service, but we sometimes use this information in ways that can actually work to our disadvantage.
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Cognitive Abilities Seem to Reinforce Each Other in Adolescence
Scientists from Cambridge, London, and Berlin directly compared different proposed explanations for the phenomenon of ‘general intelligence’ and how it develops over time.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring associative learning of social value in groups, age-related changes in performance as a function of experience instead of cognitive decline, and mind wandering in daily life.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring how children balance informativeness and ease of production when talking and how free choice influences the costs associated with searching for multiple objects.
