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…

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…

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…

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…