Causal knowledge plays a crucial role in human thought, but the nature of causal
representation and inference remains a puzzle. Can human causal inference be captured by …

Despite widespread consensus among educators that active learning leads to better
outcomes than comparatively passive forms of instruction, it is often unclear why these …

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from
the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and …

The past 50 years have seen an accumulation of evidence suggesting that associative
learning depends on high-level cognitive processes that give rise to propositional …

A widely advocated idea in education is that people learn better when the flow of experience
is under their control (ie, learning is self-directed). However, the reasons why volitional …

Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action
requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect …

For over 200 years, philosophers and mathematicians have be en using probability theory to
describe human cognition. While the theory of prob abilities was first developed as a means …

Inducing causal relationships from observations is a classic problem in scientific inference,
statistics, and machine learning. It is also a central part of human learning, and a task that …

Head hits cause brain damage-but not always. Should we ban sport to protect athletes?
Exposure to electromagnetic fields is strongly associated with cancer development-does that …

The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in
philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive work in psychology. In …