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.
Affect is the broad scientific language for feeling-toned states and processes, often organized around valence and arousal. It is useful precisely because it can describe how experience is pleasant or unpleasant, activated or quiet, without assuming that a discrete emotion such as fear or anger has already been identified.
Affect labeling is the act of putting an affective state into words, usually studied as a specific process that can alter emotional responding even when people are not deliberately trying to regulate. Its effects are real in some paradigms but variable, and neural findings should not be inflated into a simple “name it to tame it” law.
Putting feelings into words without mistaking the word for the whole experience
Two people can feel the same light stroke differently. One welcomes it from a trusted friend; another experiences it as intrusive from a stranger.…
A doorway is wide enough for one person to walk through without turning sideways, but a person carrying a broad box may need to rotate. The doorway did…
A research-led account of human agency across intention, action, collective capacity and real institutional constraints.
Why meaningful agency in AI systems requires usable information, authority, time and routes to correction.
Agency is not preserved simply because a human still clicks the final button. It depends on whether people can still form intentions, understand options, resist momentum, revise goals, and remain answerable for action inside systems that increasingly anticipate and accelerate choice.
AI literacy is the developing capacity to understand what AI systems can and cannot do, evaluate their outputs and consequences, use them appropriately, and retain human responsibility for decisions made with or through them.
A current, source-linked map of AI literacy policy, including the amended EU AI Act duty and education frameworks.