But as revealed in The Social Dilemma, social media algorithms that amplify outrage are eroding our society’s ability to ...

A still from "The Social Dilemma." (Courtesy of Exposure Labs/Netflix) The new Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma" lays out a case against the primacy of big technology companies. The film ...

Why do people make decisions that don’t seem to make sense? One answer, which comes from game theory, is called the prisoner’s dilemma. The prisoner’s dilemma explains why people make decisions which ...

Though they ended up on opposite sides of the Civil War, at one point Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee had a few things in common. Both men believed slavery to be a moral evil. They also both ...

Documentarian Jeff Orlowski does for Facebook what his "Chasing Ice" and "Chasing Coral" did for climate change. That may not be a mind-blowing idea for anyone who’s been raised on the internet, but ...

Cultural differences play a pivotal role in how people in different parts of the world perceive when it is acceptable to sacrifice one person to save a larger group, new research has shown. An ...

Workplaces -- with their mix of personalities and pressing professional goals -- are a virtual melting pot of various types of dilemmas. From those stemming from personality conflicts among staff to ...

In a new study published in PLOS Computational Biology, an international research team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Cardiff University, and Google has reexamined Robert ...

Social media can be fun and incredibly addictive. After all, there’s a reason why the social media industry and the illegal drug industry are the only industries that refer to their customers as ...

The prisoner's dilemma is a game used by researchers to model and investigate how people decide to cooperate—or not. Imagine that Prisoner A and Prisoner B are charged with a crime and detained ...