Research-led explanations of human capacity, learning and technological change. Start with the foundations, then follow the evidence and related ideas as the Learning Hub grows.
Lateral reading is an online evaluation strategy in which a reader leaves a focal webpage to investigate who is behind it, what independent sources say about it, and where its claims originated. It is a concrete verification practice, not a general synonym for critical thinking.
Lateral reading is a procedural approach to evaluating unfamiliar online sources by leaving the page, opening new tabs and investigating what other credible sources say about the source and its claims. It is powerful because it changes where evaluation begins, but it still depends on search quality, background knowledge, reading comprehension and the ability to recognise better external evidence.
A dog exposed to shock it cannot stop later fails to use an available escape. That historical laboratory result gave learned helplessness its name. It…
A learning environment as the interacting people, tasks, tools, spaces and norms that make understanding possible or difficult.
Learning to learn is a broad competence framework concerning the knowledge, skills, dispositions and regulation that allow people to become more effective learners across changing contexts. It has a substantial Finnish and European assessment history, but it is not one unitary psychological trait.
Vygotsky showed why development cannot be reduced to an isolated mind: language, tools, guidance, and social participation help reorganize what a person becomes able to do.
When someone says that moving cities was the turning point of their life, they are doing more than listing an event. They are selecting a moment…
Lisa Feldman Barrett’s research programme challenges fixed-fingerprint accounts of emotion and develops a constructionist model integrating brain-body regulation, prediction, interoception, concepts and culture.
Two students receive the same disappointing exam result. One thinks that changing how they study could make a difference next time. The other thinks the…
What loneliness means, how it differs from isolation and solitude, and what health and relationship evidence can and cannot establish.