I’m a communications researcher who studies conspiracy theories. The thoroughly debunked chemtrails theory provides a ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

A new study reveals that the capacity for social reasoning in large language models, a trait similar to the human “theory of ...

Children’s social cognitive development emerges from the dynamic interplay of neural maturation, parental caregiving, and dyadic brain-to-brain synchrony.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The measurement problem in quantum mechanics looks at how an experimental outcome changes, simply by observing it. While most physicists agree that human ...

America has a misinformation problem. It’s in our news feeds, on our social media timelines, and at our kitchen tables. It’s driving wedges between friends and family — and sharp political divides.

Summary: Understanding others’ beliefs—especially false ones—is key to human communication and begins to develop between ages three and five. In a new study, researchers observed children’s brain ...

Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, and they also significantly overestimate how much others agree with them, Cornell psychology researchers have found. The study ...