What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?
On the psychology of artistic style
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 15, 2015
On Expecting Things to Fall Apart
We understand entropy surprisingly early in life
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 8, 2015
Limericks That Leave You Hanging
When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t
By Jessica Love Thursday, December 18, 2014
When Nouns Verb Oddly
Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 13, 2014
Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?
Two studies suggest yes and no
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 6, 2014
Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)
On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives
By Jessica Love Thursday, October 30, 2014
Can Reading Be Unlearned?
Researchers have looked somewhere surprising for answers—hypnosis
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 10, 2013
Your Baby Is a Statistician
What does an 11-month-old understand about random sampling?
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 3, 2013
Why We Know So Little About High Achievers
Inquiring minds want to know—just not scientists
By Jessica 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 Jessica Love Thursday, December 13, 2012
Derailed By “Who’s On First”
On committing to the wrong thing
By Jessica Love Thursday, December 6, 2012
The Liberal Grammar Fanatic
Why do grammatical errors turn Jekylls into Hydes?
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 29, 2012
Psychology and the Elite College Undergraduate
The world is theirs; but are they the world?
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 15, 2012
Acting Like a Baby
Why is it so hard to hear non-native sounds?
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 8, 2012
