Society

A research team led by Hitoshi Yamamoto has unveiled new insights into how humans build and update reputations in cooperative social interactions. Human societies have achieved remarkable levels of cooperation, facilitated mainly by mechanisms of […]

Big tech company hype sells generative artificial intelligence (AI) as intelligent, creative, desirable, inevitable, and about to radically reshape the future in many ways.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Much previous work in the social sciences has involved researchers—often but not always from the Global North—collecting data from rural communities in the Global South on a wide range of topics from public health to […]

Research by Royal Holloway has found people with a varied social life mentally put their daily experiences into small “events,” compared to more isolated people who see their world as one-long stretch.This article is brought […]

Social norms and behavioral rules, even when outdated, are often resistant to change, but a paper by two University at Buffalo philosophers argues that lasting shifts might be achieved by redirecting the effort to change […]

Letting raw emotion drive financial decisions sounds like a recipe for disaster. But Jennifer Lerner, the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management at the Kennedy School, found that anger turned […]

Gratitude statements like “Thanks! You are so kind!” and “Thank you! What you did was really helpful,” are common when someone receives assistance from another person. Such expressions of gratitude and appreciation have long been […]

A new international study led by a research team from Tel Aviv University has revealed that simply repeating an image, whether authentic or AI-generated, increases the likelihood that we will believe it is real.This article […]

Many of us would struggle to recall the last time we wrote anything substantial by hand. Digital devices often feel more convenient and efficient. But research shows that the intricate motor skills and visual processing […]

In a survey study of more than 1,000 U.S. adults who were in committed, heterosexual relationships during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents were more likely than non-parents to report an increased desire […]