Every experiment was carefully standardized and rewritten in natural language so the AI could understand and learn from them. The result is an AI model that doesn’t just reflect past human ...

Thought experiments can have some advantages over real experiments: they require no special equipment, are low-cost, can be ...

One researcher revives a famous (or possibly infamous) human experiment. Dec. 19, 2008— -- In the early 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram shocked America when he ...

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 ...

Dmytro Zinkevych/Shutterstock.com Laura Elin Pigott, London South Bank University Your dog tilts its head when you cry, paces ...

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows.

At Gottlieb's behest, the CIA conducted experiments on and administered mind-altering substances, including barbiturates and LSD, to often unsuspecting individuals without their consent or knowledge.

Defining the blank mind Athena Demertzi, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Liège, recently published a review paper on mind-blanking research.