Society

Social media posts containing misinformation evoke more moral outrage than posts with trustworthy information, and that outrage facilitates the spread of misinformation, according to a new study by Killian McLoughlin and colleagues.This article is brought […]

With the passing of the bill this week to ban young people from social media, we need to keep talking about alternatives so the Senate approaches this with a long-term view, not a quick fix. […]

A small team of social scientists at New York University-Abu Dhabi has conducted what they describe as a more accurate assessment of the number of soldiers killed in the U.S. Civil War. In their study […]

Romance scams—where scammers create fake identities and use dating or friendship to get your trust and money—cost Australians A$201 million last year.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, have investigated how the combination of music and images influences the aesthetic perception of art, and what role the deliberate […]

Many of us will soak in the merriment and drama that family gatherings bring during Thanksgiving. But beyond the Thanksgiving dinner table, new research suggests that living and being around family more often affects our […]

Loneliness is on the rise in the U.S., with a third of Americans reporting they’ve experienced “serious loneliness” in recent years. Lonely people are twice as likely to become depressed, and loneliness is a key […]

Screen use and internet safety are two of the top concerns Australian parents have about their kids’ health and well-being—even ranking ahead of diet, exercise and depression.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

We all know what words we might shout out when we stub a toe or touch something hot. For those of us who speak English, it’s probably “ouch.”This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

While death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are fundamental in shaping how it is experienced by the individual.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.