Wim Hofstee (1936-2021) and the Theory of Psychological Relativity Wim Hofstee was one of the designers of post WWII psychological science in the Netherlands. His contribution can roughly be summarized in two concepts: Prediction and Relativity. And decades of assiduous work, using the method of Thinking. Fenna Poletiek • December 23, 2021
Language: the Hardest Problem of Science - Easy Peasy for any Child One of the most difficult problems of science is where language comes from. Language ontogeny – how children can learn it? – and phylogeny – how did it emerge in evolution? – are still largely unsolved mysteries today. In a recent study, we attacked the issue in the lab, with surprising results. Fenna Poletiek • November 15, 2021
An intelligent mind is an experimenting mind A university’s raw material is intelligence. But what is that? What is this putative thing that a professor has more of than a gardener, an ape, or a computer? Fenna Poletiek • February 18, 2019
How difficult is language learning? And to explain it? Language is a vertiginously complex symbolic system, and yet humans all learn it, effortlessly, within a remarkably short period of time. How do they do this? Fenna Poletiek • October 11, 2018
Art Authentication by the Crowd What underlies the capability to recognize the style of a particular artist from look-alike styles? And who can do it? Fenna Poletiek • February 06, 2017
A Serious Game for Psychologists How to pimp up innovation and replication in psychological science? Fenna Poletiek • September 18, 2015
