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We could stumble into AI catastrophe

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The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)

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Yoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs May Arise

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Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse

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Mental time travel can make us better people

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Religion as an Ego-modulator

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The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability

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We don't have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model

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Harming the ‘outgroup’ linked to elevated activity in the brain reward circuitry

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Empirical Notes on Kissing

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Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

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How Intelligent Are Cats? (2004)

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Love is biological bribery?

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Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive

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The Best Way to Hug Someone, According to Science

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Artificial Intelligence in the Cockpit

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Those that game together, stay together

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Love seems like a high priority

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Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action

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Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One

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Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective

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If I fits I sits: illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats

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Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research

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Trapped priors as a basic problem of rationality

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Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking

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Mammalian Aggression

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Evidence for entropy maximisation in human free choice behaviour

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Poor evidence that Q-tips are harmful

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The Need for Touch

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Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (2016)

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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017)

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There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (2017)

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Intelligent disobedience

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Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015)

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Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last

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A Game That Made Rats Jump for Joy

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Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (2011)

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Nature invented play long before it invented us

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Researchers strapped video cameras on cats and let them do their thing

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Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts

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The pros and cons of placebo buttons

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What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)

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When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive

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Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients'

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Does being bored make us more creative? (2014)

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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017)

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We know music is pleasurable, the question is why?

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Children learn best when engaged in the living world, not on screens

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When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing

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Sex and Sexuality

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No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch?

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“The effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency” (2002)

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There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence

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“The Domestic Dog”, featuring two decades of new evidence

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'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation (2007)

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The Science of Passionate Sex

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It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people act as they do

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Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others

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Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds

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Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in Prisoner’s Dilemma

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How GPS became a human tracking mechanism

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Can smiling make you happier?

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Everyday ‘Placebo Buttons’ Create Semblance of Control

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Questioning the value of sports is seen as blasphemy

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Dissonant tones sound fine to people not raised on Western music

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Musical preferences mainly shaped by a person’s cultural upbringing

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Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins

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Rats free each other from cages (2011)

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The Case Against Reality

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The Loophole in the Hedonic Treadmill

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Ego depletion theory may have been debunked

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Hierarchy Is Detrimental for Human Cooperation

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Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments

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Why You’re Biased About Being Biased

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If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2014)

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Is Homo Economicus a Psychopath?

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Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity

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Why We Procrastinate

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Male Scent May Compromise Biomedical Research

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Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field

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How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

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How to confuse a moral compass: Survey 'magic trick' causes attitude reversal

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Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

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Why I stopped working on the Bongard Problems

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SIRC Guide to Flirting: what social science tells you about flirting

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Bill Dietrich gives CMU $250,000,000

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The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists

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SIRC Guide to Flirting

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We do not prefer chords to be perfectly in mathematical ratios: study

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Suppressing boredom at work hurts future productivity

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"Superintelligence" 10 years later

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Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died

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