Understanding how social factors influence dementia risk can help businesses play a key role in supporting the needs of aging ...

When learning without any social influence, a different part of the brain, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex was involved. Persuasion Essential Reads. People Don’t Believe What You Say?

Social influence from phone communications is significant, reaching as far as four degrees of separation from the original caller, according to a new study.

Our digital interactions on social media platforms can sometimes be so immersive that it’s hard for us to differentiate a conscious thought from an unconscious inception; and that inhibits our ...

Social influence and persuasion are powerful forces shaping our interactions and behaviors on social media. By understanding these mechanisms, we can become more aware of how we are influenced and ...

A doctor’s prescription pad can be “useless” when it comes to combating social and economic contributions to ill health, ...

A plethora of lawsuits, involving more than 1,800 plaintiffs, have been filed against social media companies, including ...

When it comes to social influence, knowing how people are connected matters more than simply knowing lots of people, found researchers from Brown University’s Carney Institute for Brain Science.

Foreign influence campaigns, or information operations, have been widespread in the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election. Influence campaigns are large-scale efforts to shift public opinion ...

The results showed that older people were more susceptible to social influence, especially from the more impulsive person. After seeing someone who consistently chooses the impulsive option, older ...

Truth Social, the right-wing social network, has faced one business calamity after the next since it launched in February. Two executives resigned after its app launch was mired with problems ...