Jessica Love holds a doctorate in cognitive psychology and edits Kellogg Insight at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Jessica Love
Anatomy of a Collision
The sudden intersection of one’s professional and parental identities can lead to a strange kind of work-life imbalance
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 22, 2022
Zugzwang in the New Year
You can’t win—should you even try?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 09, 2014
Can Reading Be Unlearned?
Researchers have looked somewhere surprising for answers—hypnosis
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 10, 2013
Babies Bamboozled by Numbers
What’s so hard about four?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 13, 2012
Dr. Doolittle Calling
Do nonhuman animals have grammar?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 21, 2013
We Need to Chat
How technology has changed the way we relate to one another
by Jessica Love | Monday, September 07, 2015
When the Upshot Is a Downer
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 08, 2011
Golfers, Toothpaste, and How Not to Overthink
by Jessica Love | Thursday, April 12, 2012
Language Finds a Way
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 21, 2012
When the Mind Wanders, the Eyes Stay the Course
Try not to zone out while you read this post
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 23, 2012
Acting Like a Baby
Why is it so hard to hear non-native sounds?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 08, 2012
Derailed By “Who’s On First”
On committing to the wrong thing
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 06, 2012
What Toddlers Know They Don’t Know About Plurals
Fifty years later, the Wug Test is still teaching us how children learn new word forms
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 13, 2012
Your Baby Is a Statistician
What does an 11-month-old understand about random sampling?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 03, 2013
I Say Shutout, You Say Clean Sheet
What happens to our speech when we watch international soccer
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 12, 2014
And I’m Like, Read This!
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 22, 2011
The Elephant in the Room
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 29, 2011
Speech in Action
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 27, 2011
If It Talks Like the Truth
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 03, 2011
When Characters Speak Off the Page
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 29, 2011
Tyler Is Setting Up a Tent
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 15, 2011
The Grammarian Was a He
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 15, 2011
When Rosemary Should Be Rosy and Merry
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 05, 2012
The Spaghetti with a Dark Past
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 08, 2011
The Lion, the Yurt, and the Xbox
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 06, 2011
Aliens in the Mind
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 13, 2011
Nailing It
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 20, 2011
The Accented Among Us
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 10, 2011
A Cocktail Conundrum
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 01, 2011
Spelling and the Mind
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 12, 2012
The Magazine Ran with Ink and Columns
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 17, 2011
This Column Needs Edited
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 01, 2011
Parse This
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 22, 2011
When Words Are Neighbors
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 19, 2012
Nullified
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 24, 2011
On Word Learning, Incidentally
by Jessica Love | Thursday, July 12, 2012
What Prestige Sounds Like
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 01, 2012
What Actually Works
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 26, 2012
Changing the World, If Only in Our Minds
How we describe what isn't around us
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 30, 2012
Pilloried Prepositions
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 16, 2012
Is the Future of English Bad Science?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, April 05, 2012
The Mind Paused / Not at All
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 22, 2012
Extreme Empathy
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 10, 2012
Little Scribes
by Jessica Love | Thursday, July 19, 2012
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by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 02, 2012
Survival of the Thriftiest
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 14, 2012
Submissive Sentences
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 09, 2012
Give Ishmael a Break
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 07, 2012
So Totally On My Mind
by Jessica Love | Thursday, July 26, 2012
Should Two Constructions Diverge
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 16, 2012
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sentence
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 23, 2012
Rules Versus Rules: What The New Yorker Got Wrong
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 17, 2012
When I See a Monkey Read
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 31, 2012
Nounsy Nouns and Verbsy Verbs and Little Wugs Eat Ivy
by Jessica Love | Thursday, April 19, 2012
Oprah: 2, Attenborough: 0
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 08, 2012
American Culture Makes Us Egocentric—Maybe
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 02, 2012
Dude Sounds Like a Lady
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 28, 2012
On Drunk Speech
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 24, 2012
On the Psychology of Swearing
Could cursing be good for us?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 06, 2012
How We Talk to Babies
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 09, 2012
On Caddy-corner ... Or Whatever That Word Is
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 15, 2012
These Thoughts Were Made in American English
by Jessica Love | Thursday, April 26, 2012
The Art of Word Learning
by Jessica Love | Thursday, July 05, 2012
Calling All Psychonarratologists
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 29, 2012
Does Language Change How We Experience Color?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 03, 2012
Your Brain On Risk
The neuroscience of world domination; or, what happens when bad science meets bad writing
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 18, 2012
Why We Know So Little About High Achievers
Inquiring minds want to know—just not scientists
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 20, 2012
The Liberal Grammar Fanatic
Why do grammatical errors turn Jekylls into Hydes?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 29, 2012
What Little Girls Are Made Of
Sugar and spice and linguistic precocity
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 27, 2012
The Psychology of Playing the Part
What makes an actor?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 01, 2012
A Language Without Exact Numbers
The curious case of Pirahã
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 20, 2012
When Foreign Words and Native Accents Meet
The politics of saying it right
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 04, 2012
Psychology and the Elite College Undergraduate
The world is theirs; but are they the world?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 15, 2012
Big Toddler, Teeny Slide
Playtime gets curiouser and curiouser …
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 11, 2012
What Your Child Watches When She Watches TV
2-D learning about a 3-D world
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 24, 2013
Of Mutant Mice—and Men
What can rodents tell us about language learning?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 31, 2013
Aquatic Cognition
Small aquatic creatures learn (and forget) to live another day
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 07, 2013
Ye Olde Blogge Postte
An ironic phrase with an ironic past
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 14, 2013
Demons Where Once There Were None
Exploring the darker powers of suggestion
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 17, 2013
Well, Hey There, Search
Soon we may query search engines as naturally as we query each other
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 27, 2013
CAPTCHA That Bot!
Behind the distorted text that decides: human or not?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, April 11, 2013
Y’all Look Different From Up Here
On the surprising link between face recognition and learning to sit
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 05, 2013
The Allure of the Intuitive
What happens when we no longer understand our own minds?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 07, 2013
Kiki or Bouba?
A short test with a complicated answer key
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 21, 2013
Freshman, Meet Your Roommates
Prepare to share toothpaste—and dialects
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 01, 2013
Friends Don’t Let Friends Listen and Drive
Is it dangerous to drive under the influence of … language?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 30, 2013
A Dog With Two Names?
For bilingual babies, words don’t come with the same assumptions
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 20, 2013
Tell the Riddle Right
Subtle linguistic manipulations can change how we interpret questions
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 06, 2013
The Internet is a James Joyce Novel
On the playful language of image macros
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 08, 2013
My Feeling for 11 Is Almost One of Pity
A new study argues that some synesthetic associations may be learned
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 14, 2013
Time Traveling Through a Sentence
To understand language we relive the past and predict the future
by Jessica Love | Thursday, April 18, 2013
When Babies Bang
A new study says the ruckus readies us for tool use
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 15, 2013
Sharing Or Oversharing Online?
These days, who’s to say what the difference is?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 12, 2013
Where’s the “The”?
Do babies mistake function words for object labels?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 02, 2013
When Tech Turns Nouns Into Smarter Nouns
How might an influx of smart gadgets change the English language?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 19, 2013
The Allure of the Counterintuitive
It’s not enough for social science to inform: it must surprise
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 28, 2013
Picturing a Whole New Language
Could images be the new words?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, July 11, 2013
Hardwired for Talk?
There’s a problem: languages change really fast
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 28, 2013
The Internet Remembers
Sometimes entire populations behave a lot like individuals
by Jessica Love | Thursday, April 04, 2013
Search: A Primer for the Rest of Us
Search engines are the ultimate gatekeepers. How do they work?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 13, 2013
Language in an Age of Seamlessness
What happens to conversation when everyone’s using a different device?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, July 18, 2013
A Mind to Navigate
An evolutionary story for a visional illusion
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 16, 2013
What makes Hemingway Hemingway?
On the psychology of artistic style
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 26, 2013
On Expecting Things to Fall Apart
We understand entropy surprisingly early in life
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 24, 2013
“You’re Saying It Wrong”
Why the Pledge of Allegiance may have some soul-searching to do
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 30, 2014
The Rules of Pleasant Conversation
How do we know when to chime in?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 03, 2013
Quick: What’s the Past Tense of “Pet”?
On regular and irregular verbs
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 31, 2013
What We Don’t Read When We Read
On the words and letters we miss
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 06, 2014
Headless Bear Walks Up to Woman; Awesomeness Ensues
The search for the perfect title
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 07, 2013
A Reader’s Guide to Ha Ha (A Webcomic)
On the many strange spellings of a very strange word
by Jessica Love | Thursday, April 10, 2014
Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?
Two studies suggest yes and no
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 13, 2014
Think Like a Bilingual
Is it ever too late to benefit from a second language?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 13, 2014
Compendiums of Everything
A brief history of the modern encyclopedia
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 14, 2013
Emergencies in Spanish
When emergency calls and miscommunications collide
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 20, 2014
The Disappearing Accent
For a while, youngsters stop noticing differences between dialects
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 05, 2013
Much Reading. Wow.
On the delicate dance between humor and inscrutability
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 21, 2013
Why So Few English Words for Odors?
Another language shows it doesn’t have to be so
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 16, 2014
The Search for Meaning in Sound
On kerfuffles and hullabaloos and rethinking iconicity
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 12, 2013
Labels for People
Language encourages children to categorize by gender and race
by Jessica Love | Thursday, February 27, 2014
What Does the Owlet Say?
On the competitive squabbles of barn owl siblings
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 23, 2014
Common Ground in Video Games
What can we expect from NPCs?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 10, 2013
Here, There Be Ambiguity (a Webcomic)
On contrastive reduplication
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 20, 2014
Limericks That Leave You Hanging
When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 17, 2013
Spanish in the City
What’s behind an ongoing change to the Spanish spoken by New Yorkers?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 02, 2014
What Jorge Luis Borges Knew About Knowing
Of Memory and Forgetting
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 06, 2014
Perfect Memory (Webcomic #9)
On remembering and misremembering
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 21, 2014
When Nouns Verb Oddly
Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 22, 2014
Anthropomorphic Trees (Webcomic #7)
What’s that book teaching your child?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 19, 2014
Wounded By Books
Brits of an earlier age read at their own risk
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 11, 2014
Ethics Across Borders
On shifting values and Facebook’s big misstep
by Jessica Love | Thursday, July 03, 2014
Wave Your Hands and Say It Right
On the surprising relationship between gestures and memory
by Jessica Love | Thursday, April 17, 2014
Describing a Visual World Without Vision
On blindness and language
by Jessica Love | Thursday, July 10, 2014
Solidarity in Confusion
What we convey when we converse
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 18, 2014
Nap Your Way to a Bigger Vocabulary?
On word learning and sleep
by Jessica Love | Thursday, July 17, 2014
Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)
On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives
by Jessica Love | Thursday, April 24, 2014
Leave Your Laptop Home
Taking notes? There’s a memory advantage to using pen and paper
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 01, 2014
Not Enough Brain (A Webcomic)
On the persistence of a myth
by Jessica Love | Thursday, June 05, 2014
How Many Words Does a Wordsmith Make?
On Aesop Rock, DMX, and the importance of a large vocabulary
by Jessica Love | Thursday, May 08, 2014
For to Sound Folksy
What do we know about this odd, antiquated construction?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, July 31, 2014
English vs. English
On the concrete and the abstract, the Germanic and the Latinate
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 04, 2014
Depends on How You Tell It
On the psychology of narrative style
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 07, 2014
Baby Got Rhythm?
Keep the beat and improve your language skills
by Jessica Love | Thursday, September 25, 2014
All Eyes on the Eyes
On the many powers of visual contact
by Jessica Love | Thursday, August 14, 2014
Headless Bear Walks Up to Woman; Awesomeness Ensues
The search for the perfect title
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 20, 2014
How to Talk Shakespeare
by Jessica Love | Wednesday, December 03, 2014
A Modest Proposal and a Goodbye
On improving science coverage, and finding the good stuff already out there
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 02, 2014
What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?
On the psychology of artistic style
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 15, 2015
The Disappearing Accent
For a while, youngsters stop noticing differences between dialects
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 09, 2014
Are You Smarter Than My Cat?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 16, 2014
Magic Fingers
Do baby sign language courses really work?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 22, 2015
Zugzwang in the New Year
You can’t win—should you even try?
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 23, 2014
Tuesdays with Siri
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 11, 2014
Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)
On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives
by Jessica Love | Thursday, October 30, 2014
Limericks That Leave You Hanging
When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t
by Jessica Love | Thursday, December 18, 2014
Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?
Two studies suggest yes and no
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 06, 2014
When Nouns Verb Oddly
Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings
by Jessica Love | Thursday, November 13, 2014
On Expecting Things to Fall Apart
We understand entropy surprisingly early in life
by Jessica Love | Thursday, January 08, 2015
They Get to Me
A young psycholinguist confesses her strong attraction to pronouns
by Jessica Love | Monday, March 01, 2010
Reading Fast and Slow
The speed at which our eyes travel across the printed page has serious (and surprising) implications for the way we make sense of words
by Jessica Love | Thursday, March 01, 2012
The Grammarian Was a He
by Jessica Love | Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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