When a foreign power floods your media with false health alerts designed to create panic, isn’t that as threatening as a ...

Understanding human decision-making has been a central goal in psychology for decades. Researchers have long sought to design ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF have developed cognitive robot capabilities that can handle complex tasks in manufacturing that were previously ...

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In human psychology, attitude changes linked to cognitive dissonance are often modest. GPT-4o, by contrast, displayed dramatic shifts, potentially due to the way it processes and replicates ...

Signs of Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive dissonance is only a theory. Not everyone feels the discomfort described in some of the examples of cognitive dissonance included here.

It's a fascinating example of how very different lifestyles in very different species can result in similar behaviors and cognitive abilities.

Our societywide obsession with speed and efficiency has given us a flawed model of human cognition that I’ve come to think of as the “Matrix” theory of knowledge.