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A great irony of this contemporary insecurity about attention is that, compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, the human attention span is really not that impressive. Although we have many exceptional cognitive abilities (abstract thought, for instance),
“We did a survey where we asked people what their aspirations were for living to 100,” says psychologist Laura Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. “The most common responses were: I hope I don’t have dementia, and I hope I haven’t run out o...
There’s plenty of research on children and young adults, and plenty of research on senior citizens, but what about middle-aged people? It can sometimes feel like they’re the forgotten middle child of generational studies. But now, a new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science is taking a comprehensive look at middle-aged Ame...
As generative AI and large language models (LLMs) rapidly reshape the research landscape, psychological scientists are seeking guidance on how to responsibly integrate these tools into their work. The Observer has gathered nine recent and upcoming ...
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If computers are flawed analysts of straightforward productivity, imagine, now, applying that same technology to something as complex as the constellation of emotions expressible by humans. Study after study shows that AI replicates the biases of the data it’s trained on. (In 2018, Lauren Rhue, then a professor of information systems and analytics at Wake Forest U...