Co-authored by Nikita Baxi and Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. In the age of the internet, the desire to stay informed about global events often comes at a cost—a cost to our mental health and moral values.

Watching sensationalized, people-pandering content can slowly erode your ability to tell right from wrong. Imagine scrolling through your social media feed, only to come across a news headline that ...

If you consider yourself a climate science supporter, you probably wouldn’t think simple exposure to a skeptic’s claim could shift your views. Our new research has produced worrying findings. Climate ...

Psychologists have demonstrated a robust psychological illusion that distorts how we remember when something happened. The illusion causes a mistaken belief that repeated experiences actually occurred ...

If you consider yourself a climate science supporter, you probably wouldn’t think simple exposure to a sceptic’s claim could shift your views. Our new research has produced worrying findings. Climate ...

Long-term memories rely on both the repetition of events and an intricate neurological learning process in making these memories last, shows a new study by a team of neuroscientists. Its findings ...

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