Metacognition–the ability to represent, monitor and control ongoing cognitive processes–
helps us perform many tasks, both when acting alone and when working with others. While …

Although each of us was once a baby, infant consciousness remains mysterious and there is
no received view about when, and in what form, consciousness first emerges. Some …

In Consciousness We Trust is a synthesis of Hakwan Lau's 20-year research programme
exploring the neuroscience of consciousness. Discussing studies from his own laboratory …

Self-validation theory (SVT) is introduced and presented as a series of six postulates. The
core notion of SVT is that thoughts become more consequential for judgment and action as …

Learners use certainty to guide learning. They maintain existing beliefs when certain, but
seek further information when they feel uninformed. Here, we review developmental …

Curious information-seeking is known to be a key driver for learning, but characterizing this
important psychological phenomenon remains a challenge. In this article, we argue that …

The success of human cooperation crucially depends on mechanisms enabling individuals
to detect unreliability in their conspecifics. Yet, how such epistemic vigilance is achieved …

Cultural evolution depends on both innovation (the creation of new cultural variants by
accident or design) and high-fidelity transmission (which preserves our accumulated …

Young children are often dependent on learning from others and to this effect develop
heuristics to help distinguish reliable sources from unreliable sources. Where younger …

Phronesis is an elusive concept but one that does heavy lifting in Aristotelian-inspired virtue
ethics and moral education. On one account phronesis is irreducibly experiential in nature …