June 8 is National Best Friends Day. It’s a time to recognize the people who make life brighter, better and more bearable.

Brashier sat down with UC San Diego Today to discuss why we believe fake news and what – in this era of artificial ...

We rely on cognitive ‘shortcuts’ that save time and effort. For example, repeated content feels easier to process than new ...

If the health content you see on social media sounds too good to be true, it’s very likely false – but there are ways to ...

These headlines seem to reveal sensational and secret information that can falsely boost the message's credibility. Check it out before you share ... name of the author. Do they have recognized ...

I know I am not the only one who, as a child, when asking a parent or other authority figure why I was ... and the writing we’re expected to do in this course? A: At a higher education institution ...

Every tidbit of new information, inner dialogue and sensory input routes through working memory, and certain characteristics of working memory likely explain why we forget those thoughts.

It is not surprising that we tend to like people who ... out any effects of the bogus similarity information. Consensual validation helped to explain why people who perceived greater similarity ...

High-information voters—which includes the pundits we see on TV, the people who conduct ... and he has been fined $450 million.) Why do voters give Biden no credit for what he’s done?

To help understand why ... when others share good news with them. Since people feel more grateful and closer to others when capitalizing on positive events, and will do it more often when receiving ...

The brain, Eagleman explains, distributes its resources by “implementing a do-or-die competition ... 45 minutes. When we sleep, we can smell, hear and feel, but visual information is absent ...