Highly intelligent people often appear socially successful, but psychologically, many report feeling more isolated than their peers.

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Neuropsychological research has significantly advanced the understanding of cognitive, executive, and affective processes underlying criminal behavior, ...

Why do analytical people fall for conspiracy theories? A new study reveals that individuals who crave strict rules and predictable patterns are easily drawn to the artificial sense of order that ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

Conspiracy theories have people believing nonsensical things, like the Earth being flat. However, many people with “extraordinary beliefs” are rational thinkers, a study shows. Three key areas ...

What makes a conspiracy theorist? Is it poor education, an overactive imagination, a tinfoil hat? According to one recent study, it isn’t any of that stuff, but instead something psychologically ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the ongoing pursuit by psychology ...

The baby boomers are the first generation that has navigated adulthood using digital technology. The oldest baby boomers were around 25 when the first e-mail was sent; they were the first generation ...

People who believe in conspiracy theories may be more likely to exhibit specific cognitive biases also found in individuals with subclinical delusional thinking, according to a pair of new studies ...

In this article, we situate the social psychologist and philosopher Fritz Heider’s theory within what we call “early social cognition,” a historical approach preceding and radically differing from ...

1 Center for Defence and Strategic Studies “Janko Bobetko”, Croatian Defence Academy “Dr. Franjo Tuđman”, Zagreb, Croatia. 2 Primary School “Sračinec”, 1st Private Gymnasium Varaždin, Varaždin, ...