spaced repetition & Darwin’s golden rule
Spaced repetition is a memory hack. We know that spacing out your study is more effective than cramming, but using …
Read MoreDid the Victorians have faster reactions?
Psychologists have been measuring reaction times since before psychology existed, and they are still a staple of cognitive psychology experiments …
Read MoreReview: John Bargh’s “Before You Know It”
I have a review of John Bargh’s new book “Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We …
Read MoreBelieving everyone else is wrong is a danger sign
I have a guest post for the Research Digest, snappily titled ‘People who think their opinions are superior to others …
Read MoreOpen Science Essentials: Preprints
Open science essentials in 2 minutes, part 4 Before a research article is published in a journal you can make …
Read MoreAfter the methods crisis, the theory crisis
This thread started by Ekaterina Damer has prompted many recommendations from psychologists on twitter. Can anyone recommend an (ideally brief) …
Read MoreThe Choice Engine
A project I’ve been working on a for a long time has just launched: The Choice Engine is an interactive …
Read MoreDo we suffer ‘behavioural fatigue’ for pandemic prevention measures?
The Guardian recently published an article saying “People won’t get ‘tired’ of social distancing – and it’s unscientific to suggest …
Read MorePandemonium’s friendly demons
Oliver Selfridge was an early pioneer of artificial intelligence, and in 1959 wrote a classic paper outlining a system by …
Read MoreChromostereopsis
The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this. Some people don’t see anything special: just …
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