Whether you realize it or not, you spend a large chunk of your day weighing conflicting evidence. It is a hallmark of human ...

Sometimes, we manage to spin new information in ways that will support our belief rather than change our minds. Just watch ...

This cognitive skill is known as belief revision. It’s long been considered a hallmark of human rationality that ...

New research suggests chimpanzees can rethink their choices when new evidence emerges, a hallmark of human-like reasoning.

A groundbreaking study published in Science reveals that chimpanzees can rationally revise their beliefs much like humans.

Researchers found that chimpanzees update their beliefs based on evidence, showing a human-like ability to reason and reflect ...

Chimpanzees are capable of complex emotions. While this is common knowledge today, it was not in the 1960s. It was not until ...

Chimpanzees show the capacity to weigh clues, track options, and change their minds when better evidence shows up.

The chimps who starred in "MVP" 25 years ago are long removed from wearing hockey gear, but the impacts of their show ...

If insect applications prove to be medicinal, this adds to the importance of safeguarding chimpanzees and their habitats ...

A new review of recent studies shows that chimpanzees use some of the same medicinal plants as humans. In Uganda, the great apes have been observed applying plants with known beneficial phytochemicals ...

Kayla Kolff received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), project number 274877981 (GRK-2185/1: DFG Research Training Group Situated Cognition). Animals respond to injury in many ways.