I took a course recently where the instructor said that 75% of all drivers think they’re better than average. This follows up on that theme but takes it a step further. Apparently pretty much everyone thinks they’re better than average, and the worse you are, the worse your estimate of your abilities is (probably because […]

What better way to start the New Year than with some Monkey news? Smithsonian.com has a feature on Laurie Santos, an experimental psychologist and researcher who specialised in Monkeys. She has been doing experiments on primate cognition at Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Peurto Rico that is a controlled home for rhesus […]