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The High School We Can’t Log Off From
It appears we’re in the midst of yet another Twitter backlash. Marquee users have been slowly backing away from their feeds (or slipping off the grid entirely); last week, Twitter’s stock plunged by more than
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Artificial intelligence has learned to probe the minds of other computers
Anyone who’s had a frustrating interaction with Siri or Alexa knows that digital assistants just don’t get humans. What they need is what psychologists call theory of mind, an awareness of others’ beliefs and desires.
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How Technology Shapes Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions
In a city famed as a leading hub of computational trailblazing, scientists describe their field research on technology and the human experience.
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Driving? Your Phone Is A Distraction Even If You Aren’t Looking At It
I was in the car with a friend recently when she pulled up to a stoplight, picked up her phone and replied to a text. I gave her the side eye. What? she glared back.
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The Dangers of Distracted Parenting
Smartphones have by now been implicated in so many crummy outcomes—car fatalities, sleep disturbances, empathy loss, relationship problems, failure to notice a clown on a unicycle—that it almost seems easier to list the things they
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Bridging the Lab and the Real World
Advances in technology and methodologies are enabling psychological scientists to bridge the divide between the lab and the world at large in research on infant development, attentional
shifting, language comprehension, and more.