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Walking through a town or city, you will encounter buildings with diverse shapes and sizes. These unique styles exist in part because the buildings were constructed by different architects, engineers and builders.

IIITB researchers develop interpretable pipeline to predict engagement in human-robot interactions. Pipeline uses ML & psychology to model engagement & provide deeper insights into human personality, attitudes & emotions. Applications in online learning, assistive robotics & intelligent conversational agents.

My team’s new study joins a growing body of research showing that humans are highly attuned to other people and what they think.

People fact-checked social media posts more carefully and were more willing to revise their initial beliefs when they were paired with someone from a different cultural background than their own, according to a study my collaborators Michael Baker and Françoise Détienne and I recently published in Frontiers in Psychology.

Amelia Tyler drew from an unexpected place for their Baldur's Gate 3 role

To explore the intersection of the ancient wisdom of Yoga and Vedanta and modern psychotherapy, the VIPRA Division of the Department of Clinical Psychology at NIMHANS recently organised its annual symposium on Indian Psychology, at a two-day workshop titled “A Yoga-Vedantic Approach to Psychotherapy”.

I sat down with the Sword Coast's illustrious narrator earlier this week, and talked ripping, tearing, and animal psychology.

Want to be more like Bill Gates? “Plan like a pessimist and dream like an optimist,” psychologist and author Morgan Housel says.

Friday's Inside Higher Ed (Ryan Quinn) article [UPDATE: link fixed] reported on this: The hiring process for a University of Washington psychology professor position titled "Diversity in Development" initially ranked a white person No. 1 out of 84 applicants, the university says in a report released this week. But psychology…

HC Karnataka suo moto initiates PIL to frame guidelines for child custody in matrimonial disputes. Notice issued to Central & State govts. Senior Advocate Dhyan Chinnappa appointed as amicus curiae. Court seeks dedicated facility of experts in human psychology to protect child's interest. Petition states biological parents, grandparents & family…

Gaining an hour of sleep has its benefits, but many aren’t fans of the early sunset.