Jess Love

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

Acting Like a Baby

Why is it so hard to hear non-native sounds?

By Jess Love | Thursday November 8, 2012

The Psychology of Playing the Part

What makes an actor?

By Jess Love | Thursday November 1, 2012

Much Ado About Acting

On learning lines

By Jess Love | Thursday October 25, 2012

Your Brain On Risk

The neuroscience of world domination; or, what happens when bad science meets bad writing

By Jess Love | Thursday October 18, 2012

Big Toddler, Teeny Slide

Playtime gets curiouser and curiouser …

By Jess Love | Thursday October 11, 2012

When Foreign Words and Native Accents Meet

The politics of saying it right

By Jess Love | Thursday October 4, 2012

What Little Girls Are Made Of

Sugar and spice and linguistic precocity

By Jess Love | Thursday September 27, 2012

A Language Without Exact Numbers

The curious case of Pirahã

By Jess Love | Thursday September 20, 2012

Babies Bamboozled by Numbers

What’s so hard about four?

By Jess Love | Thursday September 13, 2012

On the Psychology of Swearing

Could cursing be good for us?

By Jess Love | Thursday September 6, 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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