Recent evidence suggests that the acquisition of new motor skills can directly influence later visual perception even when an observer's eyes remain 'wide shut' during learning.

Neural circuits responsible for conscious self-control are highly vulnerable to even mild stress. When they shut down, primal impulses go unchecked and mental paralysis sets in

In late 2020, a collection of leading political scientists wrote brief in Science on what they characterized as the “fierce urgency” fighting growing sectarianism United States (Finkel et al., p. 536). Among their recommendations for reforming our increasingly toxic and combative culture, authors called promoting intellectual humility: by developing commitment to nuance an awareness own cogniti...