Negotiating your salary, whether it's a raise or a new salary for a new position, is never the easiest conversation to have. That said, once you've decided on the salary you're going to ask for, ...

One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do, especially if you don’t even have a word for it. That’s the situation of the Pirahã people, denizens of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest who have no term for ...

Researchers have found a new relationship between counting ability of Tsimane' individuals and their ability to perform matching tasks that involve numbers up to about 25. The results suggest that in ...

Silke Goebel has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the British Academy and the Experimental Psychology Society. Counting feels utterly effortless to adults, who are ...

Discover how language and numbers shape our understanding of numerical concepts, specifically in homesigners of Nicaragua. That's a common trait in many hunter-gatherer societies, where the numbering ...