It appears to be a feature of System 1 that cognitive ease…

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way…

— David D. Burns

Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more…

— James Heckman

“The neurological/cognitive symptoms are more characteristically variable than constant and often have a distinct fatiguing component to them. Especially common are cognitive ‘fog’ or…

— Bruce M. Carruthers

In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide the foundation…

— Noam Chomsky

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

— Daniel Goleman

Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps…

— Jesse Bering

Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely…

— Darell Hammond

“The thingy? You want me, the most intelligent cognitive processor in the known worlds, to say thingy?” “Yes,” I reaffirmed. “That is correct." Do…

— John Zakour

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

— Jordan Peterson

It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria…

— Megan McArdle

“If we have no form of cognitive learning, our knowledge is empty with the absence of words in our mind for us to speak…

— Saaif Alam

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical…

— Daniel Goleman

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is…

— Thomas Aquinas

The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms…

— Francisco Varela

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to…

— Edward Tufte