Advertising experts know that if you repeat a message often enough, people will believe it, regardless of whether it’s truthful or not. Repetition, we’re told, is much more important than accuracy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bernard Dupont / Flickr Humans make decisions using statistical information every day. Imagine you’re selecting a packet of ...

For decades, the consensus was that as young children begin reasoning about the biological world, they adopt an "anthropocentric" stance, favoring humans over non-human animals when it comes to ...

Freddy Jackson Brown and Nic Hooper say chimps can't do relational reasoning (3 June, p 38), and artificial intelligence struggles with it (17 June p 12). It is probably the basis for human language.

When we think about the smartest animals, chimpanzees are usually the first to come to mind. Experiments show that they can memorize sequences of numbers, learn the meaning of words and associate ...

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