A famous psychological experiment in 1980 revealed insights into human behavior. This same study applies to how people respond to contemporary AI. An AI Insider scoop.

Fear-eliciting images of modern and ancestral threats are equally likely to evoke physiological reactions, despite their distinct evolutionary origins, according to a study published in the ...

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In a bar, a poet meets the man behind the drug that saved his life — discovering how science, faith and chance created a future thought impossible.

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The human mind has always fascinated scientists, but the quest to understand psychological behavior has led researchers down some disturbingly dark paths.

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Why does psi research provoke such strong reactions? Controversial scientific questions can trigger fear, ridicule, and ...

Astrocytes, the fibrous bodies shown here in a light micrograph of brain tissue, appear to have an important role in fear memory retrieval and extinction based on experiments in mice. Image credit: ...

A terminal medical diagnosis can lead to fear of death. But studies have shown that the drug psilocybin along with therapy sessions can ease this fear. It may be that psychedelic experiences involve a ...

During the Revolutionary War, more American soldiers died from disease than from musket shot. One out of every three soldiers infected with smallpox died. In the cramped conditions of military ...