The internet is a new habitat, not an app. We need new science to map its impact on attention, relationships, and identity before the unexamined revolution outpaces us.

Are vampires malnourished super-predators? This inquiry links vampire lore (pale skin, sun aversion, senses) to real biology, revealing the ultimate nutritional truth of the undead.

Explore how treating reality like a narrative fandom—complete with canon, retcons, patch notes, and fan theories—reveals the storytelling nature of science and human understanding.

This philosophical essay explores apocalyptic panspermia—the idea that humanity’s drive for creation and destruction may serve as life’s cosmic dispersal, turning our end into the universe’s new beginning.

In an era of endless information, truth has become secondary to belief. The Age of Affirmation explores how society has shifted from seeking knowledge to seeking comfort, where “fake news” and algorithmic echo chambers replace inquiry with identity.

Explore the deep psychological bond between dogs and cheese through the lens of comparative psychology. Discover why cheese triggers such primal joy in canines and what this reveals about evolution, emotion, and the shared pursuit of pleasure between species.

Explore whether Bayesian statistics can truly solve the challenges of the post-truth era. This essay examines how Bayesian reasoning explains belief formation, misinformation, and fake news, while questioning its limits in restoring trust, truth, and shared evidence in politics and society.

Explore the psychological weight of digital life where every email, console, and app ties to global conflict, creating a suffocating sense of digital claustrophobia and moral complicity.

Explore the concept of Source Lapse—the new term for forgetting whether a conversation was with a human or AI. Learn its psychological roots, related ideas like Turing Slip and Source Drift, and why this phenomenon matters in our digital age.

Discover how relying on AI to summarize texts may erode critical thinking, comprehension, and nuance. Explore the academic and societal risks, from psychology classrooms to political misinformation.

Explore a darkly speculative Halloween thought experiment: what would happen to the human mind if ghosts were real? Using psychology research on isolation, memory, and hallucination, we examine how spirits might unravel into echoes, obsessions, or demons.

Explore psychology’s political divide: from conservative roots in order and control to progressive movements for liberation and social justice.

Explore the Korean Wave (hallyu) through a psychological lens. This in-depth essay examines K-pop groups like BTS, BlackPink, and Twice, alongside Korean TV and film, focusing on soft power, identity, parasocial relationships, fan culture, and the mental health risks and rewards of global fandom.

Research proposal idea, exploring how smartphone filming during ICE encounters may act as a digital bystander effect, easing cognitive dissonance between moral obligation and personal risk.

Explore how psychology’s bias toward positive views of human nature distorts research, limits progress, and why embracing flaws can build stronger societies.

This essay argues that the conversational style of AI, specifically its impartial affirmations and polished tone, fosters inflated perceptions of intelligence. By examining how feedback works in human learning, how fluency and politeness distort self-assessment, and how users interpret AI’s praise, we can see how the Dunning–Kruger effect may not just persist in the age of AI, but intensify.

Explore KFC UK’s controversial ‘All Hail Gravy’ ad and the Believe in Chicken campaign. Discover how ritual, outrage, and cultural branding turned infamy into marketing success.

Discover why we forget most dreams after waking, explore the neuroscience, memory processes, and psychology behind dream recall.

This article examines how short-form video apps are influencing the cadence, structure, and creative processes of contemporary music.

Explore how AI voices are subtly reshaping human behavior, language, and emotion. This provocative essay unpacks the psychological and cultural costs of mirroring machines — and the quiet erosion of human autonomy.