Contrary to common perception, learning does not stop once knowledge has been transferred to an agent. Intelligent behaviour observed in humans and animals strongly suggests that after learning, we self-organise our experiences and knowledge, so that they can be more efficiently reused; a process that is unsupervised and employs reasoning based on the acquired knowledge. Our proposed algorithm ...

Collective intelligence is believed to underly the remarkable success of human society. The formation of accurate shared beliefs is one of the key components of human collective intelligence. How are accurate shared beliefs formed in groups of fallible individuals? Answering this question requires a multiscale analysis. We must understand both the individual decision mechanisms people use, and ...

Trust is critical to the success of human-robot interaction (HRI), and one of the critical antecedents to trust is transparency. To best interact with human teammates, a robot must be able to ensure that they understand its decision-making process. Recent work has developed automated explanation methods that can achieve this goal. However, individual differences among human teammates require th...

Do young boys and girls understand what leads to academic success (e.g., talent, effort, good teaching, luck) in the same way? Do young girls and boys have equivalent perceptions of their academic competence? Are these beliefs engendered in the same way across sociocultural contexts? In a cross-cultural study of over 3,000 children in grades 2 to 6, ages 7.2 to 13.6, we discovered that boys and...

This study presents a new approach to the concept of cosmic consciousness integrated in current neuroscience knowledge and discusses implications for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It also examines different aspects related to consciousness and how it may play a key role in the understanding of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and life in the Universe and its implicat...

Agent technology is a Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) approach to implement autonomous entities driven by beliefs, goals, capabilities, plans, and agency properties: adaptation, interaction, learning, etc. Software agents are the focus of considerable research by the artificial intelligence community, but there is still much to be done in the field of software engineering in order to ...

Two studies explored the role of implicit theories of intelligence in adolescents' mathematics achievement. In Study 1 with 373 7th graders, the belief that intelligence is malleable (incremental theory) predicted an upward trajectory in grades over the two years of junior high school, while a belief that intelligence is fixed (entity theory) predicted a flat trajectory. A mediational model inc...

Software agents are defined as autonomous entities driven by beliefs, goals, capabilities and plans, and other behavioral properties such as adaptation, learning, interaction, and mobility. Software agents are the focus of considerable research in the artificial intelligence community, but there is still much to be done in the field of software engineering in order to systematically create larg...

Numerous studies have documented the effects of social class on psychological and behavioral variables. However, lay beliefs about how social class affects these dimensions have not been systematically tested. Studies 1 and 2 assessed lay beliefs about the association between social class and 8 variables (including psychological and behavioral tendencies and cognitive ability). Study 3 assessed...

Article history: Received 2 March 2009 Received in revised form 21 September 2010 Accepted 22 September 2010 Available online 13 October 2010 Education is by far the strongest predictor of whether a non-economist will share the economic beliefs of the average economist. (Caplan, 2001) Is the effect of education as large as it seems? Or is education largely a proxy for cognitive ability? Using d...