A new MIT study could help designers create voice-user interfaces that are more engaging and more likely to be used by members of a family…
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MIT neuroscientists have identified a specific signal that young children and even babies can use to determine whether two people have a strong relationship and…
Think about the best way you know to overcome the blues – and do that. What’s the best way to improve a sad mood? It…
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 visual representation of the study – one child sorted the blocks, and the other observed. Credit: PNAS Led by the University of Plymouth, UK,…
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-19First identified in 2019 in…
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…
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…
In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October,…
The UK Traffic Light nutrition label on pre-packaged processed foods. Credit: Sonia Pombo-Rodrigues, CC BY 4.0 New analysis of 118 studies conducted over 30 years…
People overestimate awkwardness, underestimate enjoyment of deep, meaningful conversations, study finds. People benefit from deep and meaningful conversations that help us forge connections with one…
New developmental psychology work has upended decades of research suggesting that children as young as 4 years old possess theory of mind. Having theory of…
A mathematical equation can assess how you feel about experiences using your mood and brain activity. People can struggle to accurately assess how they feel…
Mistrust of government tops reasons for vaccine hesitancy. People’s trust in the government’s approval of a safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19First identified in 2019…
The ability of cognitive control allows humans to override the brain’s impulses, like focusing on one person in the crowd and ignoring distractions. It also…