When psychologists, researchers and other scientists conduct studies on the characteristics of successful and accomplished people, they frequently find that these people have a high need for “cognitive closure”. Social psychologists define cognitive closure as “the desire for a confident judgement on an issue, any confident judgement, as compared to confusion and ambiguity”. People with…
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We are living in exciting times full of technological innovation and developments. We are in the process of developing driverless cars, using reusable rocket technology to go to space and are making significant improvements in the application of Artificial Intelligence. Despite all these amazing developments, we still know surprisingly little about something that has been…
Our population is getting older and older. New automation technology will put workers out of their jobs. Wealth inequality is rising, and the middle class is shrinking. These three trends are discussed abundantly in various journals and newspapers. However, very few research reports realize that these three trends should not be looked at individually. Rather…
“The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event” This statement by Elon Musk illustrates the seriousness of the problem for human civilization of forever being confined to Earth….
Recent developments in Virtual Reality have enabled it to be applied in many different fields such as video games, Robotics or cinema entertainment. The environment created by the VR computer already provides an almost lifelike experience. If one extrapolates the developments in VR at any rate of growth into the future, regardless of whether it…
Gender differences have been a long debated subject and are often prone to misunderstandings and misinterpretations. In this article however, I want to write about research that has been conducted on typical sex differences from a neuroscientific standpoint. Simon Baron Cohen, a psychologist and a professor at Cambridge University, explained that when looking at the…
Andeavor, previously known as Tesoro, is one of the largest independent petroleum refining, logistics and marketing companies in the US. Having been incorporated in Delaware in 1968, it is currently headquartered in San Antonio, Texas – where it is the only Fortune 500 company that has its headquarters there. Andeavor’s business is organized into three…
Judgement and decision making are two research fields that heavily rely on statistical judgements. As many judgements in our life are based on an abundance of, often ambiguous, information, we necessarily deal with subjective probabilities rather than certainties. This is an important reason why decision making is so difficult in real life, because we live…
In recent years experimental philosophy has emerged as an exciting new approach to the study of people’s philosophical intuitions. Experimental philosophers apply the methods of the social and cognitive sciences to the study of philosophical cognition. Previously, philosophers only used to work with a priori justifications. These are statements that can be deduced by pure…
Volcanoes erupt all the time, all over the world. However, the majority of these eruptions are from minor ones, hardly impacting the environment. The typical volcano sends sulphur dioxide into the troposphere, the atmospheric layer closest to the earth’s surface. The gas stays in the sky for a week before falling back to the ground…