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.
How bodily and emotional signals were proposed to bias decisions, what the Iowa Gambling Task did and did not establish, and why the hypothesis remains influential without becoming a law of intuition
Source credibility concerns the reasons a receiver has to regard a source as knowledgeable, trustworthy and appropriate for a particular claim. Credibility is relational and domain specific, not a permanent badge attached to a person, institution or website.
Source criticism is the disciplined evaluation of where information comes from, how it was produced, what interests and constraints shaped it, and whether it is fit to support the claim being made. In digital environments, it increasingly requires leaving the source to investigate its provenance elsewhere.
Why learning spread across time often outlasts one concentrated session, and how to design the intervals responsibly.
A learner finishes an intensive workshop and can reproduce every step while the examples are still visible. Another learner meets the same material in…
In a project meeting, one member’s suggestion is heard as expert advice while an equally relevant warning from another passes without response. The…
Stephan Lewandowsky’s research programme examines why misinformation can continue shaping reasoning after correction, how false beliefs are updated, and how digital information environments interact with human cognition. His work is especially useful for separating the fact that corrections often help from the harder question of why their effects are sometimes incomplete.
Stephen M. Fleming’s research programme connects subjective confidence, metacognitive sensitivity, computational modelling and cognitive neuroscience. Its importance lies not in turning confidence into truth, but in making the relation between performance and self-evaluation measurable with greater precision.
How people evaluate what is at stake in a stressor, which options are available, and how appraisal changes with context.
A precise guide to acute stress physiology, timing, autonomic and HPA responses, recovery, and why activation is not the same as dysregulation