Expanding on the ideas explored in his 2013 bestseller, Contagious, Berger offers an engaging guide to the concept of social influence. He examines how opposing categories of socially motivated ...

Today, the current trend, especially in the U.S., is all about getting more awareness and exposure on either ourselves or our businesses. The digital age has given birth to a playground where everyone ...

The unconscious mind is fascinating, operating just beneath the surface of our awareness. While we don't know exactly how much of our cognitive function is unconscious, estimates are generally about ...

The March 25 story “Microsoft takes bot offline after abuse” about Microsoft’s chatbot, Tay, reminded me of an old joke about computer intelligence. Looking for further funding, a group of computer ...

Cultural cognitive biases might play a significant role in the explicit processes involved in visuomotor adaptations. In this study, the researchers tried to compare the results of an aiming task ...

In Bram Stoker's Dracula, the unfortunate Dr. Seward expresses a fervent wish to research the motivations of mentally ill patients in his care: "Had I even the secret of one such mind, did I hold the ...

Quinn Grundy received funding from the United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Last week Fairfax Media revealed ...