Articles by

Sujata Gupta

Talking to a chatbot may weaken someone’s belief in conspiracy theories

Know someone convinced that the moon landing was faked or the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax? Debating...

AI generates harsher punishments for people who use Black dialect

ChatGPT is a closet racist. Ask it and other artificial intelligence tools like it what they think...

Does social status shape height?

Citations S.L. Cox et al. Socio-cultural practices may have affected sex differences in stature in Early Neolithic...

Online spaces may intensify teens’ uncertainty in social interactions

Deciphering other people’s thoughts and feelings tends to generate considerable uncertainty. In a conversation, for instance, how...

Language models may miss signs of depression in Black people’s Facebook posts

People with depression tend to write and speak about how bad they feel, years of research has...

Not all cultures value happiness over other aspects of well-being

For the seventh year running, the Finns have taken the top spot as the world’s happiest people....

Social media harms teens’ mental health, mounting evidence shows. What now?

In January, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, appeared at a congressional hearing to answer...

Most people say self-control is the same as willpower. Researchers disagree

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek...