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Human Insights for Machine Smarts
Cognitive scientists are helping artificial intelligence think more like us.
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Parents Labeling a Kid’s Friend a Bad Influence Can Backfire
Parents have always blamed their teens’ misbehavior on their kids’ friends: they may say their kids “fell into bad company” or “got in with the wrong crowd.” To combat what they see as pernicious influences
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New York Times ‘Modern Love’ Editor on What He Learned After 20 Years of Love Stories
Daniel Jones never dreamed he’d still be doing a New York Times column about love two decades and 200,000 submissions later. Or that the Modern Love column would have grown to include a podcast, books, live shows
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Being Empathetic Is Easier when Everyone’s Doing It
As a grid of video feeds blinks into view, attendees across the country prepare for an ideological collision. All have signed up for a virtual forum billed as an “empathy cafe,” held to spark dialogue
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Empathy is on the Rise in Young People
It doesn’t often feel as if we’re living in empathetic times. … That increase in empathy can be undermined by our cynicism toward each other, according to Jamil Zaki, a professor of psychology at Stanford
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How an Aging Population is Affecting Caregivers
In this May 15 webinar, three psychological researchers shared some of the latest research on the relationship between elderly patients and their caregivers, caregiver burnout, and the factors contributing to caregiver turnover at elder care facilities.
