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If you’ve ever felt confused then you’re not alone. But knowing how to deal with confusion can help us to learn new things.
Artificial intelligence gives us machines that can beat humans at games such as chess and go. How long before we see AI surpass human intelligence?
How often have you been urged to use common sense during an argument or a debate? The problem is, common sense is an unreliable indicator of truth.
As machines get ever more complex as we strive to make them complete more complex tasks, it’s time to ask again: will they ever be able to think? But what is thinking anyway?
Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.
How can we make the most of the “why?” years and develop our children into effective inquirers and critical thinkers?
Sensory information comes into the system, and we initiate actions in response. Quantifying how quickly that happens is tricky – especially since our own perceptions of the timing aren’t quite right.
What you make of the federal budget will be based on quick judgement rather than any careful analysis. And that’s just the way politicians like it.
If you or someone you care about experience an emotional problem it won’t be long before you hear that cognitive behaviour therapy, or CBT, is probably the treatment of choice.
All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them some numerical thinking skills. The new course would be…
We like to think that we reach conclusions by reviewing facts, weighing evidence and analysing arguments. But this is not how humans usually operate, particularly when decisions are important or need to…
The ancient Chinese board game Go has afforded new insight into how and how expertise develops. Using thousands of records…
Are you the “lazy” or the “deliberate” thinker? Why can’t we have a hybrid? Something has been bugging me for quite a while – how difficult it is to strike a balance between thinking fast, albeit impulsively…
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, ARC Future Fellow, Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, Curtin University
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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CSIRO
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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Educational Innovation), The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Senior Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
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Professor, School of Management, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, University of Florida
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Deputy Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
