Psychology

Scientists want to use LLMs to model human emotions and study human mental health

A conversation with writer Richard Louv, who coined the term “nature deficit disorder”

Individualistic pronouns have grown more common in pop songs over the past half century

But not for all women

A new view of the prisoner’s dilemma

Kids who can hold it together until the final bell may be primed for more academic success in life

The 50-year mystery suggests humans may be more rational than we thought

But there’s a lot we still don’t know about these intrusive thoughts of food

Our current achievement economy may deserve the blame

Scientists keep knocking it down but it keeps roaring back

The ability to read signals may be impaired by arousal

A conversation with a dream researcher about how dream content and recall may reflect personality and thinking style