Vaccinating Against Misinformation
Although “yellow journalism” is probably as old as journalism itself (the term itself dates back to the Pulitzer vs Hearst circulation...
A Second Look at the Bystander Effect
If you’ve ever read a psychology textbook, you’re probably familiar with the tragic and infuriating story of Kitty Genovese, a...
The Best Painkiller is Not What You Think it Is
When we say that listening to the right song makes us feel better, usually we mean it in terms of emotions. However, a new study from the...
The Happiness Hack
Happiness: it’s something we all want, and in one way or another, most of us spend our lives attempting to pursue it. Multiple industries...
Bamboozled! How Disguises Fool Us
At this point, it’s well-trod territory: why couldn’t star reporter Lois Lane recognize that her nerdy coworker Clark Kent was also...
Placebo Power
Imagine that scientists have discovered a painkiller that is incredibly cheap to make, has no dangerous side effects, and performs at a...
The Personality Puzzle
Since the days of Hippocrates, science has struggled to quantify human personality, and group the seemingly infinite combinations of...
Bad News for Bad Tempers
Does someone in your life havean unusually short fuse? Maybe you’ve witnessed a co-worker repeatedly go ballistic on the printer whenever...
When Songs Are Your Friends
How do you listen to music? I don’t mean “Are you a headphones person or more of a speaker fan?” I mean, what parts of your brain do you...
Would You Fall For It? The Conspiracy Mind
Are you likely to fall for a made-up government conspiracy? That depends: how well-informed are you? If you said “very”…bad news, you...
