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Denise Cummins, Ph.D.

Dr. Denise Dellarosa Cummins is research psychologist and author. She has held faculty and research positions at Yale University, the University of California, the University of Illinois, and the Center for Adaptive Behavior at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. She is a respected cognitive scientist who has authored numerous scientific articles, and is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She also gives invited talks about her research at universities and popular venues all over the world. In her Psychology Today blog, she writes about what she and other cognitive scientists are discovering about the way people think, solve problems, and make decisions. Her research interests include the evolution and development of higher cognition in artificial and biological systems. Her experimental investigations work focus on Causal Cognition, Social Cognition, and Moral Cognition. The aim of this research is investigating and explaining characteristics of higher cognition that emerge early in development, persist into adulthood, and are prefigured in the cognition of non-human animals.

Stories By Denise Cummins, Ph.D.

Manipulation

When Emotional Intelligence Is Used To Manipulate People

By Denise Cummins, Ph.D.Jun 17, 2015

How emotional intelligence can be used to promote ourselves and undermine others In 1990, psychologists Peter...
Abuse

What Makes 50 Shades Of Grey So Successful?

By Denise Cummins, Ph.D.Jun 17, 2015

How can you explain the phenomenal success of 50 Shades Of Grey? The book Fifty Shades...
Fear of failure

Here Are The 3 (Surprising) Keys To Success

By Denise Cummins, Ph.D.Jun 17, 2015

The 3 keys to success that fly in the face of wisdom In their book The Triple...
Compassion

Men’s And Women’s Empathy Are NOT The Same

By Denise Cummins, Ph.D.Jun 16, 2015

What studies show us about the differences between men and women when it comes to empathy...
Compassion

Have You Ever Wondered Why People Lack Empathy?

By Denise Cummins, Ph.D.Jun 16, 2015

You have probably noticed how some people seem to lack empathy and wondered why. Research offers...
Diet

How American Food Can Make You Fat And Sick

By Denise Cummins, Ph.D.Jun 16, 2015

American food has no taste, few nutrients, but lots of calories In Part 1, I explained how...