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To say that children are curious by nature is a topic that is: through play, children interact with other people and with the world, and gain information and knowledge. This is why it is so important to determine what conditions favour the deployment of our natural curiosity. A social psychology experiment published in the journal […]

The discussion about the effects that new technologies might be causing in our brains is a hot topic in recent years. There seems to be agreement on what are those effects, nor on whether they could be beneficial or particular: recall, for example, the reactions are passionate, both in favor and against, that has been […]

Sometimes, we find ourselves faced with the question of whether we should trust or not in certain scientific statements. And it is not surprising. To measure that increases the volume of information, reduces our ability to assimilate it, and this is especially true in science, where en sometimes you need a specialized knowledge prior to […]

A man who comes to a movie theater and ask for help to the usher to find a seat. After getting to the seat, the usher makes a gesture with the hand hoping to receive a tip. The man put his hand in his pocket and, after searching for a few moments, he pulls out […]

Practically every day we relate with other people. We observe their behaviors, and through the language and interpersonal communication, we listen to the reasons that have been moved to act as they have done. But, if that communication does not happen, we are also able to assume what could be the reasons of which can […]

It is well known the need, and sometimes demand, which is presented to individuals in the Knowledge Society, of learning to learn: the exponential growth of information and technological innovation makes knowledge obsolete more and more rapidly. But, what can be assumed at a social level, the current conception of lifelong learning? This question (among […]

Reading is a cognitive process that has received much attention from psychologists and educators. Studies on reading have followed the dominant view in cognitive science, this is, consider the brain as a processor of information. And when we do, we have said much about the way of working of our mind. But it is true […]

How many times have we shared information with someone, without being able to determine exactly where we’ve obtained this information (“I read somewhere”)? And how many times that same information has proved to be true only in a partial way?, does or has corresponded only in a limited way with the information from the original […]

One of the recurrent ideas within the model of the Information Society is the following: as members of complex societies, our well-being depends on potentially our ability to transform information into knowledge. But, how do you convert information into knowledge? In this post, I’m going to comment on an interesting model, proposed by the psychologist […]

The discipline of knowledge management experienced a real boom at the end of the 1990s, coinciding with the analysis of the Information Society. Since then, its basic ideas have been criticised and reformulated, paying special attention to those factors that hamper the dissemination of knowledge in the organizations. In this post, I’m going to talk […]