Studies of young children give us insight into the building blocks of an ability that most of us use every day ...

For me and many others, contemplating death has clarified what matters. These curiosity-based exercises will get you started ...

is James B Duke Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology emeritus at Duke University in North Carolina. He lives in Durham, North Carolina and Brooklin, Maine. He ...

In this exquisite stop-motion animation crafted from wood and wool, an anxious puppet journeys into the foggy unknown ...

is an evolutionary social psychologist with broad interests in how the recurrent challenges of our distant past help us understand our motivational states today. He is the author of The Social Leap ...

I always thought I could be an asocial primate. I cannot.’ How microbes helped James connect with the human-scale world ...

is an assistant professor of psychology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His work, which combines clinical psychology, AI and neuroscience, investigates the computations humans use to plan, and how ...

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