Our itch to share helps spread Covid-19 misinformation
Study finds social media sharing affects news judgment, but a quick exercise reduces the problem.
Study finds social media sharing affects news judgment, but a quick exercise reduces the problem.
Children Helping Science, co-led by Professor Laura Schulz, brings research to families, and families to research.
Survey from the Saxe Lab aims to measure the toll of social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic.
J-PAL North America funds randomized studies to evaluate crime-prevention programs.
MIT biophysicists apply mathematics from evolutionary biology to describe a surprising aspect of human behavior.
By detecting signs of vocal misuse, system from CSAIL and Mass General could eventually be used to help diagnose voice disorders.
Political science PhD student Marika Landau-Wells is using psychology and neuroscience to better understand political behavior.
Voice-analytics software helps customer-service reps build better rapport with customers.
Does a mental “feedback loop” prevent the poorest from exploring ways to change their lives?
MIT neuroscientists find even high-performing schools don’t influence their students’ abstract reasoning.
Researchers believe that information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication — can explain differences between human languages.
Course is the sixth of seven courses MIT OCW will publish this year specifically to meet the needs of independent learners.
MIT political scientists demonstrate how much candidate appearances affect election outcomes, globally.