Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. It’s hard to walk a block or finish a morning coffee without encountering some system that attempts to tell you what to ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

Scientific ontologies are systems and/or knowledge structures that specify concepts of science with agreed-upon labels and definitions and provide a framework for complex relationships among the ...

This bold social experiment forces people to confront a question they’re never prepared for: would they let a stranger live with them? The reactions reflect micro-expressions, trust cues, and ...

Economics often borrows ideas from the sciences, yet unlike physics or chemistry, no country has ever run a controlled, pure economic experiment on a national scale. A pure experiment requires ...

People with health anxiety tend to get tangled up in problematic behaviors, such as reassurance-seeking, excessive body checking and avoidance. These behaviors act like a vortex, sucking you into that ...