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.
Inoculation theory explains how resistance to later persuasion may be strengthened by forewarning people that their attitudes or judgments could be challenged and by giving them practice responding to weakened arguments. Its modern use against misinformation is influential, but recent reviews warn that successful prebunking interventions do not automatically demonstrate the theory’s proposed mechanism.
A person tries to solve a word puzzle for several minutes without progress. Then a new connection appears and the answer feels immediately clear. This…
A source-critical guide to the Institute’s central framework: what it proposes, where established research supports its components, and where the framework remains a synthesis still to be tested.
Why the insula is central to bodily-state processing, why it is not an isolated interoception center, and how neural evidence should be interpreted
A critical guide to Park and colleagues’ 2025 allostasis review and its proposals for biomarkers, multi-omics and cell models.
Intellectual humility concerns appropriate recognition of the limits and fallibility of one’s knowledge and beliefs. It is studied as a multifaceted psychological construct, but definitions and measures remain heterogeneous, and humility should not be confused with low confidence, deference or indecision.
A message arrives while a designer is checking a complicated calculation. The message is visible, familiar, and easy to open; the calculation is slower…
A child reaches for a caregiver after a frightening sound and receives help. Repeated experiences like this can inform what the child expects when help…
How the nervous system senses, interprets and integrates the body’s internal signals, and why the field is more complicated than “listening to your body”
What researchers mean by objectively measured internal-signal detection, and why the score depends on the task