We all know, Stephen Dubner said, that drunk driving greatly increases the likelihood of a fatal car crash. But, Dubner and his business partner, economist Steven Levitt, found that you are eight ...

When you try to understand people and explain why they do what they do, what frame do you use? The most common, intuitive (and highly useful) approach is the “belief-desire” frame. That is, people in ...

How does a neuroscientific biological perspective explain behavior? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand ...

Human behaviour is an enigma that fascinates many scientists. And there has been much discussion over the role of probability in explaining how our minds work. Probability is a mathematical framework ...

Psychological perspectives offer different ways of thinking about and explaining human behavior. The seven major psychological perspectives are: psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, ...

A large part of what we’re doing with large language models involves looking at human behavior. That might get lost in some conversations about AI, but it’s really central to a lot of the work that’s ...

Algorithms that accurately reflect the behavior of road users -- vital for the safe roll out of driverless vehicles -- are still not available, warn scientists. They say there is 'formidable ...