What is the Internet Doing to Boomers’ Brains?
By Michael Hobbes Huffpost The last time they spoke, John’s father accused him of being part of the deep state. They have never exactly gelled politically — John, 38, is […]
Tag Archives: Psychology
How Algorithms Discern Our Mood From What We Write Online
By Dana Mackenzie Knowable Magazine Many people have declared 2020 the worst year ever. While such a description may seem hopelessly subjective, according to one measure, it’s true. That yardstick […]
What Science Can do for Democracy
By Tina Eliassi-Rad, Henry Farrell, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornette, Karim Thébault, & Karoline Wiesner Humanities and Social Sciences Communications The Economist recently identified 80 […]
Cognitive Bias and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Scott D. Halpern, Robert D. Truog & Franklin G. Miller Journal of the American Medical Association As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic abates in many countries worldwide, and […]
How You’re Tricked Into Believing Fake News
By Katy Steinmetz Time Sitting in front of a computer not long ago, a tenured history professor faced a challenge that billions of us do every day: deciding whether to […]
We Once Thought Nostalgia was a Disease, But it Might be Key to Our Survival
By Eleanor Cummins Popular Mechanics We’ve all felt that jab to the soul you get from driving by your old high school haunts or hearing a tune you once danced […]
Synthetic Media: The Real Trouble With Deepfakes
By M. Mitchell Waldrop Knowable Magazine The snapshots above look like people you’d know. Your daughter’s best friend from college, maybe? That guy from human resources at work? The emergency-room […]
The Brain, the Criminal, and the Courts
By Eryn Brown Knowable Magazine On March 30, 1981, 25-year-old John W. Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan and three other people. The following year, he went on trial for […]
Machiavellian Personalities Enjoy Political Campaigning More Than Others
Psychology Today Scott A. McGreal In personality psychology, Machiavellianism refers to a cynical and manipulative approach to interpersonal relationships that embraces “moral flexibility” for personal gain. People high in Machiavellian traits, or […]
Spot the Psychopath
By Sally Davies Aeon Psychopath. The word conjures up the image of a cold-blooded killer, or perhaps a fiendishly clever but heartless egoist. There’s Ted Bundy, who in the 1970s […]
