Social learning is often portrayed as a passive process of copying and trusting others. This
view, however, does not fully capture what makes human social learning so powerful: social …

Evolutionary psychology is the second wave of the cognitive revolution. The first wave
focused on computational processes that generate knowledge about the world: perception …

During COVID-19, governments and the public are fighting not only a pandemic but also a
co-evolving infodemic—the rapid and far-reaching spread of information of questionable …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

Although psychologists have paid scant attention to the sense of obligation as a distinctly
human motivation, moral philosophers have identified two of its key features: First, it has a …

The presence of general intelligence poses a major evolutionary puzzle, which has led to
increased interest in its presence in nonhuman animals. The aim of this review is to critically …

One of the most dramatic demonstrations of the role of the mind in one's apprehension of the
world is the existence of cognitive biases. This chapter presents a three‐category framework …

Public opinion concerning social welfare is largely driven by perceptions of recipient
deservingness. Extant research has argued that this heuristic is learned from a variety of …

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers
a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this …

This is a profound look at learning, language, and literacy. It is also about brains and bodies.
And it is about talk, texts, media, and society. These topics, though usually studied in …