‘I’m not gonna do this again’, we often say when faced with negative feedback, adverse effects, or disappointing outcomes. Thus, we attempt to learn from such negative experiences. This principle is ...

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict, and the spread of misinformation, my ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn ...

A single dose of testosterone can alter the fundamental learning processes men use to avoid harm, making them more sensitive to negative outcomes when their own well-being is on the line. The study, ...

Life can be incredibly confusing. We all want a good life filled with happiness and peace. We yearn to wake up each morning with gratitude and end our days with a sense of fulfillment. But achieving ...

Sooner or later, everyone fails at something. But does everyone learn from their failures? In fact, the evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. When researchers ...

We humans don’t learn as easily as we should. We learn better from direct experience than from others. And we learn better from failure than from success. Why is that? What exactly do we learn after ...

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience. Decades on, ...