Often, it feels like humans are one bunch of totally unpredictable beings. So finding out the answers to questions about our behavior requires some serious measures. Would we go mad if we read too ...

What begins as a controlled social experiment quickly shifts into something far more intense. As participants react in real ...

What happens when a tech millionaire spends two decades trying to control how we behave online? For Millennials — it mostly worked. For Gen-X and Gen-Z? Not so much. They see the game. They’re not ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

Pick up the receiver. No coins needed. On the other end of the line: a stranger from a completely different generation, ready ...

EXCLUSIVE: Social experiments have been all the rage over the last few years from The Circle and Love Is Blind through to The Traitors. The latter, which airs on Peacock in the U.S., has led to a ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

Bluesky is adding a dislike button as a way to signal the kind of posts you don't want to see in your Discover feed. The experiment is part of several new ideas Bluesky is exploring to a improve ...

When Banijay Asia set out to adapt the U.K. reality format “Rise and Fall” for Indian audiences, the company made a deliberate choice to abandon the crowded field of dance competitions and celebrity ...