I do believe you have a need for balance in your life, and that it pays to be mindful of that balance. We are in some areas of our life. Fitness, for instance. When we've overindulged with a burger, for

I've watched all the episodes and am just fascinated. If you've got time, it's really something to get you thinking. I highly recommend it!

In a series of mind-bending demos, inventor Mary Lou Jepsen shows how we can use red light to see and stimulate what's inside our bodies and brains. Taking us to the edge of optical physics, Jepsen unveils

Why do juveniles falsely confess to crimes? What makes them more vulnerable than adults to this shocking, counterintuitive phenomenon? Through the lens of Brendan Dassey's interrogation and confession

My partner is a reader of "The New Yorker" magazine. Even though I do not read it as often as her, every now and then she recommends to me an issue or a specific piece. This time, she gave me

If you have not read Part 1, make sure to check it out before reading this post! As mentioned before, nowadays it is very common to see strangers engaging in an act of cooperation. Nevertheless, studies

In 2013, Brandon Stanton began wandering around New York City, taking people’s portraits on his camera and sharing their stories on the Internet (Stanton, n.d.). Brandon asked questions about people’s

“Without having a broad set of facts on which to theorize, there is a certain danger of spending too much time on models that are mathematically elegant, yet have little connection to actual behavior.

Let's go back in time to March 21st, 1983 in the village of Arrabah, West Bank. A seventeen year old girl sitting in class suddenly started experiencing an irritating cough and shortness of breath. Shortly

In a previous edition of the The Influential Mind Made Me Think I talked about how we love to have the ability to choose. I believe that this love comes from the capability of learning from our decisions

Experimental psychologist Petter Johansson researches choice blindness -- a phenomenon where we convince ourselves that we're getting what we want, even when we're not. In an eye-opening talk, he shares

Some time ago, I started reading Tali Sharot's "The Influential Mind". Because of the way the book is written and its content, every couple of pages I need to stop and think. On one of those

Source: pixbay.com This is my last post in this series. It was quite an interesting experience for me to write about the field I'm studying in a manner that everyone can understand it (hopefully I was

Source: pixbay.com In this post I am again going to present a theory that tries to combine linguistic approaches with cognitive models, the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (LCCM). As the

Source: pixbay.com In this post I am going to present the language and situated simulation (LASS) theory. Traditionally, it was often assumed that there is one single type of representation (e.g. amodal

Source: pixbay.com After writing about mirror neurons, the common coding theory and neural simulation of actions, which all go kind of in the same direction of simulating actions and helping us to perceive

This post goes into a similar direction as my previous two about Mirror Neurons and the Common Coding Theory, the neural simulation theory basically says that covert actions (“actions”, which only exist

Source: pixbay.com Picking up on my last post about mirror neurons, this time I am going to write about the common coding theory. Just like my last post, I am not going to present one paper in detail,

This time I'm writing about mirror neurons, it is slightly different from my previous two posts, since I do not review and present one paper, but I will write about one topic and draw back to two papers

Source: pixbay.com The second paper I am going to present is pretty much a follow-up to the first one. It was written by Tom Ziemke, a full professor of cognitive science at the University of Skövde and