Mind Hacks » tomstafford

The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this. Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. For me though, there is an incredibly strong depth...

https://mindhacks.com/2022/05/01/chromostereopsis/

Oliver Selfridge was an early pioneer of artificial intelligence, and in 1959 wrote a classic paper outlining a system by which simple units, each carrying out a specialised function, could be co...

https://mindhacks.com/2021/01/29/pandemoniums-friendly-demons/

A project I’ve been working on a for a long time has just launched: The Choice Engine is an interactive essay about the psychology, neuroscience and philosophy of free will. To begin, follow an...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/09/13/the-choice-engine/

This thread started by Ekaterina Damer has prompted many recommendations from psychologists on twitter. Can anyone recommend an (ideally brief) introductory paper or post or book explaining what ...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/08/15/after-the-methods-crisis-the-theory-crisis/

Open science essentials in 2 minutes, part 4 Before a research article is published in a journal you can make it freely available for anyone to read. You could do this on your own website, but yo...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/08/14/open-science-essentials-preprints/

I have a guest post for the Research Digest, snappily titled ‘People who think their opinions are superior to others are most prone to overestimating their relevant knowledge and ignoring chanc...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/06/17/believing-everyone-else-is-wrong-is-a-danger-sign/

I have a review of John Bargh’s new book “Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do” in this month’s Psychologist magazine. You can read the review in print (or online ...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/04/04/review-john-barghs-before-you-know-it/

Psychologists have been measuring reaction times since before psychology existed, and they are still a staple of cognitive psychology experiments today. Typically psychologists look for a differe...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/04/03/did-the-victorians-have-faster-reactions/

Spaced repetition is a memory hack. We know that spacing out your study is more effective than cramming, but using an app you can tailor your own spaced repetition schedule, allowing you to effic...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/26/spaced-repetition-darwins-golden-rule/

The contrast sensitivity function shows how our sensitivity to contrasts is affected by spatial frequency. You can test it using gratings of alternating light and darker shade. Ian Goodfellow has...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/25/a-graph-that-is-made-by-perceiving-it/