This demonstrated that machines do not need to be conscious to change us. They only need to seem so. If a basic script could persuade people to disclose their innermost worries and secrets, it should ...

Adding a bedtime story or taking away a favorite toy has proven ineffective for kids, whose brains and nervous systems are not fully developed. Here's what works.

A new study introduces choice engineering—a powerful new way to guide decisions using math instead of guesswork. By applying carefully designed mathematical models, researchers found they could ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jeffrey A. Lee, Texas Tech University (THE CONVERSATION) Over the past 400 years or so ...

Horizon Media research unit Horizon Futures has issued a report taking an in-depth look at evolving cultural identities in the U.S. that it asserts are reshaping how brands connect with consumers. The ...

Two new papers from Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Gastroenterology shed light on how gut-brain interactions, ...

OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models' behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the ...

Walk through a grocery store with a child, and you will see it instantly. Candy bars line the checkout aisle, placed exactly at eye level. That placement is not random; it is deliberate stimulus ...