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.
Before a difficult conversation, a person silently rehearses an objection and imagines a reply: “Perhaps I should ask first.” “But what if they think I…
A critical evidence guide for the Institute of Inner Technology Learning Hub
Europe’s updated digital competence framework makes AI part of everyday citizenship rather than a specialist skill. Its strength is breadth and public-purpose orientation; its limit is that competence frameworks do not by themselves prove what people can do under real pressure.
How digital choice architecture can make essential tasks, exits and error repair usable without capturing attention.
A person loses access to an online account that holds years of work and conversation. They want to know what happened, recover their data, and challenge…
Digital wellbeing as the quality of people’s experience, access, agency and safety with technology, beyond screen-duration totals.
Discernment is the capacity to distinguish among claims, sources, signals, motives, interpretations and courses of action when surface plausibility is not enough. It overlaps with critical thinking, verification and epistemic vigilance but is not reducible to any one of them.
Disinformation is false or misleading information deliberately created, manipulated or distributed to deceive or strategically mislead. Intent is central to many definitions, but intent is difficult to infer and definitions remain contested across research, policy and law.
Yan, Greiff, Lodge and colleagues’ 2025 Nature Reviews Psychology Comment argues that generative AI can improve immediate task performance without producing the cognitive and metacognitive processing required for durable learning. It is a conceptual Comment, not an intervention trial.
Distress tolerance concerns the capacity to remain engaged with aversive experience without letting immediate relief become the only available action. The research is useful precisely because it also shows that “tolerance” is not one cleanly measured trait.