New research indicates that ghosting leaves a longer-lasting psychological mark than direct rejection. The study suggests that the lack of closure keeps people from moving on, prolonging their ...

A famous psychological experiment in 1980 revealed insights into human behavior. This same study applies to how people respond to contemporary AI. An AI Insider scoop.

The phenomenon of inattentional blindness seems to show you can see without the information crossing into your consciousness.

A recent study in Computers in Human Behavior provides evidence that a single smartphone pop-up derails mental focus for seven seconds. Researchers found that fragmented digital habits cause more ...

Tickling may be evolutionarily ancient and recognized across cultures, but science has only scratched the surface of this ...

A company claims to have simulated the neurons of an adult fruit fly's brain and letting it roam inside a Matrix-like virtual environment.

MIT neuroscientists have figured out how the brain is able to focus on a single voice among a cacophony of many voices, ...

The human mind has always fascinated scientists, but the quest to understand psychological behavior has led researchers down some disturbingly dark paths.

Meta has acquired Moltbook, an AI-only social network for AI agents, with co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr joining Meta's Superintelligence Lab.

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to ...

Media outlets are increasingly reporting on the CIA’s behavioral research programs of the 1950s and 1960s, which experimented ...

Gulls are often seen as intruders in our daily lives. But researchers are discovering what really motivates them—and ...