AI is one of the most debated subjects of today and there seems little common
understanding concerning the differences and similarities of human intelligence and artificial …

What is the function of our capacity for 'mental time travel'? Evolutionary considerations
suggest that vivid memory and imaginative foresight may be crucial cognitive devices for …

Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as
imagining the past. In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of …

" More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always
better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our …

This best-selling textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the
American Psychological Association, Diane F. Halpern, applies theory and research from …

Hindsight bias occurs when people feel that they “knew it all along,” that is, when they
believe that an event is more predictable after it becomes known than it was before it …

The adaptive toolbox is a Darwinian-inspired theory that conceives of the mind as a modular
system that is composed of heuristics, their building blocks, and evolved capacities. The …

This chapter discusses the early development of executive function, also called cognitive
control; effortful, conscious, or executive control; or supervisory attention. Executive function …

Statistical rituals largely eliminate statistical thinking in the social sciences. Rituals are
indispensable for identification with social groups, but they should be the subject rather than …

Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the
perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of …