“In today’s fractured information ecosystem, one person’s ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’ is another’s truth. And in that ambiguity, bad actors win.” So writes McKenzie Sadeghi of the online ...

After 13 years of teaching psychology courses, I banned a word for the first time. A word that is interfering with students ability to communicate about human behavior. You might assume the word is ...

For decades, a social psychologist named John Bargh has conducted studies on the way words affect behavior. In one such study, undergraduate students were given a scrambled-sentence test. One version ...