Not all feelings are created equal when it comes to sharing on social media The positive emotions of love and joy might seem to have much in common. Similarly, anxiety and anger appear to be close emotional siblings. But on social media, seemingly similar emotions can lead to very different responses. According to new research...
Scientists find that people mostly avoid social media ads when they see them, but many ads blend in seamlessly How many ads do you see on social media? It might be more than you realize. Scientists studying how ads work on Instagram-style social media have found that people are not as good at spotting them...
Popular generative AI web browser assistants are collecting and sharing sensitive user data, such as medical records and social security numbers, without adequate safeguards, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. The study, which will be presented and published as part of the USENIX Security Symposium, is the...
With over 75% of professionals using AI in their daily work, writing and editing messages with tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or Claude has become a commonplace practice. While generative AI tools are seen to make writing easier, are they effective for communicating between managers and employees? A new study of 1,100 professionals reveals a critical paradox...
The American South – and the nation more broadly – continues to wrestle with how to remember its most painful chapters. Tourism is one of the arenas where that struggle is most visible. This tension came into sharp relief in May 2025, when the largest antebellum mansion in the region – the 19th-century estate at...
In his powerful book “The Burnout Society,” South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that in modern society, individuals have an imperative to achieve. Han calls this an “achievement society” in which we must become “entrepreneurs” – branding and selling ourselves; there is no time off the clock. In such a society, even leisure risks becoming...
When business researchers analyze data, they often rely on assumptions to help make sense of what they find. But like anyone else, they can run into a whole lot of trouble if those assumptions turn out to be wrong – which may happen more often than they realize. That’s what we found in a recent...
Reflections on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on its 80th anniversary. Eighty years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people were immediately killed, and tens of thousands more died in the months and years that followed. The bomb virtually wiped Hiroshima from existence. Paul Tibbets,...
A review of Emilie A. Caspar, “Just Following Orders: Atrocities and the Brain Science of Obedience” (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Why do individuals obey commands to inflict terrible pain or even kill other people, sometimes people they may know personally? Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram’s famous—and controversial—studies in the 1960s suggested the answer lay in “agentic...
President Donald Trump’s first term saw a record-high rate of turnover among his Cabinet members and chief advisers. Trump’s second term has, to date, seen far fewer Cabinet departures. But some political commentators have observed that the president this time around has primarily appointed loyal advisers who will not challenge him. As Thomas Friedman pointed...
