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How Can We Protect Ourselves Against Manipulation, Fake News, and Other Digital Challenges?
In contrast to the offline world, the online world is largely driven by the logic of the attention economy: Users’ attention is a precious currency, and online environments are designed to capture and steer that
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Citizens Versus the Internet: How Psychological Science Can Confront Digital Challenges
The latest PSPI explores ways that psychological and behavior science can help decrease the negative consequences of Internet use.
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Is Everybody Doing … OK? Let’s Ask Social Media
Which was the saddest day of them all? This is the question you may be asking yourself, surveying the wreckage of 2020 thus far. There are so many contenders to consider: was it Thursday, March
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The Science Behind WFH Dressing for Zoom
Mina Khan, an information-technology consultant who’s been working from home in Houston since March, tried wearing sweatpants and hoodies instead of the blouses and dress pants she typically wore to the office. It didn’t work.
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Teaching: Intricacies of Intolerance / Digital Emotion Regulation
Learning the Intricacies of Intolerance By C. Nathan DeWall. Digital Emotion Regulation: Using Devices to Feel Different By Beth Morling.
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I Had to Teach My NYU Psych Class to 360 Students From a Cell Phone While Trapped In an Elevator With My Kids. It Went Surprisingly Well.
On September 23, I had to teach my afternoon Introduction to Psychology class today to over 300 students from my cell phone while I was trapped in my apartment building elevator with my two young
