America has a misinformation problem. It's in our news feeds, on our social media timelines, and at our kitchen tables. It's ...

ChatGPT-style bots trained to sound warm and caring are more likely to tell you what you want to hear, even if it's wrong. A new study finds that AIs trained to be ‘friendly' are up to 30% more likely ...

WILLIAM Kingdon Clifford was a Victorian-era English philosopher who did not live long enough (he died at age 33) to become ...

Exploring someone’s false beliefs and helping them change them Okay, so life coaching is like eating a Reese’s peanut butter cup, in that there is no right way to life coach someone.

Tangherlini sees narratives like these, and the many other conspiracies that are rife in today’s internet culture, as a type of modern-day folklore. As a computational folklorist, he uses AI tools to ...

I've listed below five of the most common false beliefs about trauma I've encountered. Do any of them remind you of the way you think about yourself? If so, maybe it's time to revisit those thoughts.

False belief: “Illegal immigrants at the southern border are bringing fentanyl and massive drugs across the border.” Fact: Just 0.02% of people arrested by the Border Patrol for crossing ...

Belief in conspiracy theories is more than just a fringe phenomenon. From COVID-19 hoaxes to political cover-ups, conspiracy thinking has infiltrated every corner of society. Despite the ease of ...

In a group of 222 white medical students, half indicated they believed at least one of 11 false beliefs about racial physiological differences were possibly, probably or definitely true, according ...