Jess Love

Jess Love is the senior director for the Ryan Institute on Complexity at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Of Mutant Mice—and Men

What can rodents tell us about language learning?

By Jess Love | Thursday January 31, 2013

What Your Child Watches When She Watches TV

2-D learning about a 3-D world

By Jess Love | Thursday January 24, 2013

Demons Where Once There Were None

Exploring the darker powers of suggestion

By Jess Love | Thursday January 17, 2013

Can Reading Be Unlearned?

Researchers have looked somewhere surprising for answers—hypnosis

By Jess Love | Thursday January 10, 2013

Your Baby Is a Statistician

What does an 11-month-old understand about random sampling?

By Jess Love | Thursday January 3, 2013

Why We Know So Little About High Achievers

Inquiring minds want to know—just not scientists

By Jess Love | Thursday December 20, 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 Jess Love | Thursday December 13, 2012

Derailed By “Who’s On First”

On committing to the wrong thing

By Jess Love | Thursday December 6, 2012

The Liberal Grammar Fanatic

Why do grammatical errors turn Jekylls into Hydes?

By Jess Love | Thursday November 29, 2012

Psychology and the Elite College Undergraduate

The world is theirs; but are they the world?

By Jess Love | Thursday November 15, 2012

The Last Good Thing

By Jess Love | Thursday December 11, 2025

Anatomy of a Collision

By Jess Love | Thursday December 22, 2022

We Need to Chat

By Jess Love | Monday September 7, 2015

Magic Fingers

By Jess Love | Thursday January 22, 2015

What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?

By Jess Love | Thursday January 15, 2015

On Expecting Things to Fall Apart

By Jess Love | Thursday January 8, 2015

Limericks That Leave You Hanging

By Jess Love | Thursday December 18, 2014

Tuesdays with Siri

By Jess Love | Thursday December 11, 2014

How to Talk Shakespeare

By Jess Love | Wednesday December 3, 2014

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