Counterfactuals, the buzzy term being touted in the latest AI news, assert some impressive promises for the tech world. But the general idea is nothing new. Counterfactual thinking describes the human ...

A team of MIT researchers has successfully modeled how people approach solving a complex problem by adopting distinct decision-making strategies. This study focuses on understanding how individuals ...

In everyday life, we encounter situations that seem to demand an explanation of why something happened, how it happened, or how it could have been prevented. People have a scientist-like desire in ...

In PSCI 3211 The Politics of Economic Inequality in the U.S., the goals of the course include: understanding the political causes of economic inequality; identifying the political factors that cause ...

Even rats can imagine: A new study finds that rats have the ability to link cause and effect such that they can expect, or imagine, something happening even if it isn't. The findings are important to ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human brain is very good at solving complicated problems. One reason for that is that humans can break problems apart into manageable subtasks that are easy to solve one at a time ...

Graphs are a ubiquitous data structure and a universal language for representing objects and complex interactions. They can model a wide range of real-world systems, such as social networks, chemical ...