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Descartes wrote his Meditations because he realized that, although he had received the best education in the world, much of what he had learned was false or unfounded. This led him to embark on a systematic investigation to discover whether knowledge is...

In what ways can generative AI models, like ChatGPT, be a useful educational tool to accelerate and enhance your learning? We’ll overview how these models work, and the surprisingly simple principles underlying their remarkable capacities. We’ll dive into...

For well over a century, psychologists have worked with schools, corporations, immigration officers, the military, and psychiatrists to sort the American population into groups in order to make a number of key judgments. Special tests – designed to...

The seminar's challenge will be to deepen our understanding of human development and how individuals cope with serious emotional or social difficulties (neglect, bipolar disorder, autism, depression, schizophrenia). We will use multiple perspectives...

Understanding "normal" growth and development may seem like a relatively easy task at first. We take the nuances of developmental differences for granted because we're so accustomed to experiencing them. Nevertheless, defining normal (versus abnormal)...

Debates about when adolescence ends and adulthood begins often lead to judgements about how long youth today are taking to reach adulthood and uncertainties about what it means to become an adult. The transition from adolescence to adulthood is often...

Decades of research tell us that the foundations of healthy development are built early in life. Genes provide the basic blueprint for brain architecture, but experiences shape the activity of the genome and thus determine how the circuitry is wired...