People May Not Always Want Help Sticking to Their New Year’s Resolutions
To Keep or Not To Keep Those New Year’s Resolutions? New research suggests that people may not always want help with sticking to their New…
To Keep or Not To Keep Those New Year’s Resolutions? New research suggests that people may not always want help with sticking to their New…
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent….
Negative labels influence consumer perception of food, study finds. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a chocolate chip cookie labeled…
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study. Learning to navigate social relationships…
What’s the best way to improve a sad mood? It may be whatever skill you think you’re best at, a new study suggests. Think you’re…
Support for populist parties and politicians, and agreement with populist sentiment, has diminished during the pandemic, according to a “mega-dataset” taking in attitudes of over…
An Italian-Swiss team demonstrates children reading skills can be improved through a novel child-friendly action video game. Decoding letters into sound is a key point…
A team from the UNIGE demonstrates that certain soft incentive techniques, known as “nudges,” are effective in getting people to change their behavior. Developed by…
Led by the University of Plymouth, UK, and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, the study analyzed the behavior of 376 children aged five to eight from…
They say appearances can be deceiving. In the case of gift giving, they might be right. Consumers in the U.S. spend billions of dollars a…
A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread. The spread of misinformation on…
Cooperation and aggression. Meerkats are showing us that one may not be possible without the other. In a study appearing this week in the journal…
New research reveals the economic costs of behavioral responses to the pandemic in the U.S. Throughout its unsteady course, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the…
Young children’s ability to laugh and make jokes has been mapped by age for the first time using data from a new study involving nearly…
Human behavior drives the evolution of biological organisms in ways that can profoundly adversely impact human welfare. Understanding people’s incentives when they do so is…
Conspiracists have used the provisional nature of science to paint scientists as malign actors. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, conspiracy theorists have exploited the conditional nature…
As the latest ‘Call of Duty’ video game is released today, research shows that violent video games do not lead to increased violence. Mass media…
How inequality is expressed matters for policy views. Americans may respect and admire how individual billionaires – think Oprah Winfrey or Bill Gates – made…