George Ainslie is one of the most prolific and influential thinkers working today on questions around self-control, willpower, and intertemporal Read More

We recently published an article in the new fully open access journal “Evolutionary Human Sciences”. Read More

I have a new article out in Psyche magazine on the science of self-control. In the article I argue that Read More

I am super excited to announce that I’m working on my first trade book, “The Invention of Tomorrow”, with Thomas Read More

In the mail last week I was excited to receive the hard copy of “The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination”. Read More

In a new paper published in Current Biology, we find that 4- to 11-year-old children offload cognition by marking the Read More

We have a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B on the early childhood origins of “cognitive offloading” Read More

In March this year, I gave a guest talk in Professor Steven Pinker’s Harvard General Education class “Rationality”. In my Read More

Update: read an accessible summary of the paper in the “Nature Research Behind the Paper” series here: What is deliberation, Read More

My most recent paper is now out online in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Read More