It is widely believed that outsourcing cognitive work to AI boosts immediate productivity at the expense of long-term human capital…
Background: Accounting for race and ethnicity in estimating disease risk may improve the accuracy of predictions but may also encourage a…
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Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n = 32,059…
Trust in nonpartisan news is essential to civil society—but is declining in the United States. However, language that demonstrates active…
Contrary to prior conclusions about positive emotion, groundbreaking research shows that experiencing gratitude can reduce cravings to…
Over 30,000 field experiments with The Washington Post and Upworthy showed that readers prefer simpler headlines (e.g., more common words…
Meta-analyses have concluded that positive emotions do not reduce appetitive risk behaviors (risky behaviors that fulfill appetitive or…
Individuals often preferentially avoid information that contradicts and seek information that aligns with their prior beliefs—a tendency…
Across all domains of human social life, positive perceptions of conversational listening (i.e., feeling heard) predict well-being,…
BOOK DESCRIPTIONPeople with important evidence-based ideas often struggle to translate data into stories their readers can relate to and…