(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

Determinism is not just causality. Determinism goes far beyond causality, and certainly much farther than psychological science requires. Many scientific psychologists embrace determinism without ...

It might sound far-fetched, but psychological researchers claim to have found evidence that your name can determine the direction of your life. Though it might sound like the sort of woo-woo ...

Reciprocal determinism shows how our thoughts, behaviors, and environments influence each other. Behavior is shaped by thoughts and the world around us, including the people we interact with daily.

Back in 1814, Pierre-Simon Laplace was mulling over the implications of Newtonian mechanics, and realized something profound. If there were a vast intelligence -- since dubbed Laplace's Demon-- that ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

The takeaway of Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is basically the same as that espoused by those Snickers commercials: You’re not you when you’re hungry. Except ...