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GTA Has Always Raised Anxieties Over Video Games and Violence—Here’s What the Science Actually Says
… “Exposure to violent media, including violent video games, is not the only risk factor, and it’s not even the most important risk factor,” says Brad Bushman, a professor at the Ohio State University, who
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Is Information or Motivation to Blame for Partisan Beliefs?
What we believe is determined by more than just the facts we are exposed to, according to a new study in Psychological Science.
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Video Evidence and Eye Witness Accounts: Why People See Different things
… When someone retrieves a memory, they “aren’t playing a recording back,” explains Elizabeth Loftus, a psychology professor at the University of California, Irvine. Rather “we are constructing” that memory, she says. In other words
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Four-Year-Olds Respond to Misinformation by Exercising Instinctive Skepticism Muscles
… A different and perhaps more inventive tack entails accepting the inevitability of children spending time online and prodding them to become their own fact-checkers. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, tested such an
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Exploring the Science of Cocreating Relationships
Two professors and social psychologists studying romantic relationships have set out on a new venture—creating a podcast for undergraduate students and the broader public focused on analyzing romantic films.
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Crowding Out Falsehoods
Psychological scientists are harnessing the biases and expertise of imperfect individuals to enhance the wisdom of crowds.
