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What is Intelligence?
Who Do You Think You Are: Chatting with Bots, And the Sexuality Spectrum (September 26, 2007)
In this episode, pyschologist Robert Epstein talks about his articles in the upcoming issue of Scientific American Mind, on being fooled by a chatterbot--a computer program designed to make you think you're communicating with a human--and on the spectrum of human sexuality.
In Negotiations, If You Feel Your Opponents' Pain, It May Be Their Gain (April 28, 2008)
Crucial in any successful negotiation is an accurate understanding of each side's motivations and needs. And although understanding another's needs involves the talent to empathize, research from the journal Psychological Science reveals that feeling another's emotions can be a deal breaker.
Catching Corrupted Photos; and Big Bird Brains (April 11, 2007)
In this episode, animal behavior expert Bernd Heinrich discusses his article in the April issue of Scientific American on animal intelligence, and Adobe Systems scientists David Story and Martin Newell talk about methods in development to enable investigators to spot phonied-up digital images.
Assessing Intelligence
Video Gameplaying Surgeons Perform Better On Skills Test (February 20, 2007)
A new study found that surgeons and surgical residents with a history of playing video games for three hours or more per week performed significantly better on a standard surgical skills test than their nonplaying colleagues.