Under ett år som till mångt och mycket dominerats av Riksdagsvalet figurerade Choice Blindness-labbets forskning i diverse populärvetenskapliga sammanhang. Detta ledde till att beslutsblindhet tog sig in i det allmänna rummet och blev därmed utsett till ett av årets 33 …
► Continue ReadingPeter Gärdenfors together with Jacob Bellmund, Edvard Moser, and Christian Doeller are published in Science with the article “Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking”. A framework for cognitive spaces: Ever since Tolman’s proposal of cognitive maps in the 1940s, …
► Continue ReadingTomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elainie Madsen of the Primate Research Group at LUCS were awarded the Ig Noble Prize in Anthroplology for collecting evidence that chimpanzees imitate humans about as often, and about as well, as humans imitate chimpanzees. …
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The Choice Blindness Lab is featured in the brand new CBC documentary The Science of Magic. In this doc, the filmmakers show not only how science has inspired magicians, but also how magicians inspire science, and in particular the exploration …
► Continue ReadingDue to the upcoming Swedish election later on this fall, the pop science magazine Forskning & Framsteg visited the Choice Blindness Lab a crisp winter day to witness one of the ongoing political opinion experiments. The journalist got a glimpse …
► Continue ReadingPetter Johanssons TEDx talk “Do you really know why you do what you do?” was featured at TED.com Over 800,000 views (by Sunday, April 6, 2018). Experimental psychologist Petter Johansson researches choice blindness — a phenomenon where we convince ourselves …
► Continue ReadingPetter Johansson, forskare inom kognitionsvetenskap på Lunds universitet, berättar om fenomenet beslutsblindhet på UR Samtiden – Hjärndagen 2017. Att vi kan förklara och förstå våra val är en central del av vår självbild. Men i vilken utsträckning vet vi varför …
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