Theory: The dreads and dangers of abstract thinking are a big reason why we now all like to stay so busy and bombarded with stimuli all the time. Abstract thinking tends most often to strike during ...

Last weekend my daughter made a fort in the garage. She used umbrellas as a roof, an old bin as the south wall, and two sledding discs for placemats. Then she cooked me a meal of pine needle stew and ...

Asking “why” and conjuring up possible answers is an important thinking process. It gives rise to some of the most beautiful states of mind, such as curiosity and imagination. These psychological ...

Wasps can tell the difference between pairs of stimuli that are the same or different, a task that requires the use of abstract concepts that only a small group of animals are known to grasp. The ...

Abstract Thinking and Statins With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Enough to Change Clinical Practice? The following represents disclosure information provided by authors of this manuscript. All ...

While we’ve become increasingly reliant on metrics for design decisions, there is something more powerful in human creativity: the art of mental stargazing and the hidden currents of our intuition.

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...