Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the
priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of …

The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most
important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of …

Abstract reasoning is a key ability for an intelligent system. Large language models (LMs)
achieve above-chance performance on abstract reasoning tasks, but exhibit many …

Recent efforts have incorporated large language models (LLMs) with external resources (eg,
the Internet) or internal control flows (eg, prompt chaining) for tasks requiring grounding or …

We review the fast-growing work on salience and economic behavior. Psychological
research shows that salient stimuli attract human attention bottom up due to their high …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

Automation is increasing in shipping. Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications
like collision avoidance and computer vision have the potential to augment or take over the …

Drawing on the philosophy of psychological explanation, we suggest that psychological
science, by focusing on effects, may lose sight of its primary explananda: psychological …

The widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) makes it important to recognize
their strengths and limitations. We argue that in order to develop a holistic understanding of …

How does language inform our downstream thinking? In particular, how do humans make
meaning from language--and how can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build …