Language is more strongly controlled by the left half of the brain, while other functions are more strongly controlled by the ...

Psychologists have long known that certain linguistic habits reveal how people are functioning internally. For example, ...

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Psychology is the scientific study of the mind, behavior and human experience. Diving into this field can help us better understand ourselves and everyone else that we encounter. But it’s an extremely ...

Division on whether an OU student should have received a zero on her essay, but most agreed that her free speech rights had not been violated.

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

Modern large language models (LLMs) are designed to align with human values. They can appear unbiased on standard benchmarks, but we find that they still show widespread stereotype biases on two ...

The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate. Adults have a number of advantages when it comes to learning a second language, and it comes with major benefits.

David Bau is very familiar with the idea that computer systems are becoming so complicated it’s hard to keep track of how they operate. “I spent 20 years as a software engineer, working on really ...