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The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey famously opens with an ancient apelike human ancestor suddenly realizing that he could use large bones as weapons. Others in his group who see him quickly adopt the ...

Social singing and dance are often assumed to be hard-wired into the human condition; studies have supported the conclusion that these are common across cultures. But new research from an ...

The basal ganglia are a group of interconnected structures, located in the midbrain below the cerebral cortex, that play a crucial role in motor control, reward processing, and cognition. This region ...

Psychological experiments are a great way to gain insights into human behaviour. While many have been repeated, some cannot ...

But what we perceive as deception is AI mindlessly achieving the goals we’ve set for it. A wave of AI systems have “deceived” humans in ways they haven’t been explicitly trained to do, by offering up ...

It is interesting to consider the difference between animals and humans and how they respond to situations. One of the reasons I write for Psychology Today is because of the useful information that ...

Unusually among human cultures, the Northern Aché people of Paraguay do not practice communal singing or dancing or sing to their children. (Photo of Aché building a traditional fishing dam by Kim ...