Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Kelsey was just going to the local Target to buy her boyfriend, John, a scrapbook to mark their six-month anniversary. But Kelsey never returned home and stopped answering her phone. “I just knew ...

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...