Study finds Wi-Fi location affects online privacy behavior
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Does sitting in a coffee shop versus at home influence a person's willingness to disclose private ...
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Location and brand affect people’s trust in cloud services
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- People's stereotypes regarding different locations around the world influence whether they feel secure in storing their ...
New podcast series highlights human stories behind transformational research
Gain an insight into the fascinating world of research with the How Researchers Changed the World podcast, which launches todayCredit: ...
Finnish school students outperform US students on ‘fake news’ digital literacy tasks
A recent study revealed students at an international school in Finland significantly outperformed U.S. students on tasks which measure digital ...
New study highlights exaggerated physical differences between male and female superheroes
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, NY - Superheroes like Thor and Black Widow may have what ...
When a ‘she’ becomes an ‘it’
What happens in the human brain when a woman is put on a par with an object? A research answering ...
The dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years
New analysis by academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), part of the University of Oxford, predicts the dead may ...
’13 Reasons Why’ and young adults’ risk of suicide
Beneficial and harmful effects seen from viewing season 2 of the Netflix seriesCredit: Annenberg Public Policy Center. Published in Social ...
Tech fixes can’t protect us from disinformation campaigns
US should focus on the psychology of false beliefs COLUMBUS, Ohio - More than technological fixes are needed to stop ...
Study finds differences in storefront tobacco advertising by product type
April 24, 2019 -- In response to U.S. restrictions on where tobacco companies are allowed to advertise their products, the ...
Adding human touch to unchatty chatbots may lead to bigger letdown
Sorry, Siri, but just giving a chatbot a human name or adding humanlike features to its avatar might not be ...
Shimmer launches version 2.0 of its NeuroLynQ neuromarketing platform
NeuroLynQ uses GSR to assess an audience's nonconscious emotional response; this new release includes additional analytical capabilitiesCredit: Shimmer CAMBRIDGE, MA ...
Forecasting contagious ideas: ‘Infectivity’ models accurately predict tweet lifespan
A tweet's virality is modulated most by its early spread rate and a gradual loss of interest over time Estimating ...
Abundance of information narrows our collective attention span
New study in Nature Communications finds increasingly narrow peaks of collective attention over time, supporting a 'social acceleration' occurring across ...