OpinionAugust 18, 2017
Yes, We Can Communicate with Animals
But only in limited ways because our brains are so fundamentally different
Stories by Denise D. Cummins
Denise D. Cummins is a cognitive scientist, author and elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Her most recent book is Good Thinking: Seven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think. In her Psychology Today blog and PBS NewsHour articles, Cummins describes what she and other cognitive scientists are discovering about the way people think, solve problems and make decisions. More information about her can be found at her home page (www.denisecummins.com). You can follow her on LinkedIn.
BehaviorJuly 25, 2016
The Surprising Role of Fairness in Economic Decision-Making
Economists think of people as "rational agents" who maximize their own benefit, but that's often not the case