While many fear artificial intelligence will replace humans, using AI to take over some human roles has benefits. Companies can use the technology to conduct surveys and polls, while behavioral ...

When you see a behavior that you want to change, in yourself or in others, your impulse is often to change it as quickly as ...

The human mind harbors secrets that would make most people deeply uncomfortable. Beneath our carefully constructed social facades and self-perceptions lies a psychological reality that challenges ...

A common interest in language unites social scientists and natural language processing (NLP) researchers. While both fields leverage the strong connection between language and behavior, social ...

Social behavior is heritable but heterogeneous. A mother reporting on her toddler learning to share, a teacher observing a ...

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It has long been known that there is a complex interplay between genetic factors and environmental influences in shaping behavior. Recently it has been found that genes governing behavior in the brain ...

Alex “Sandy” Pentland is a pioneer in harnessing network science to understand and change real-world human behaviors. The director of the MIT Connection Science Research Initiative, and creator and ...

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