In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad
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Strong social connections may protect your heart, say cardiologists
Can an active social life protect your heart? Cardiologists explain how social connections, stress reduction and lifestyle ...
Psychological network analysis reveals how inner self-compassion connects to outward social attitudes
A recent study published in the journal Mindfulness suggests that treating oneself with kindness is linked to a preference for social equality. The research provides evidence that empathy bridges the gap between personal well-being and broader societal harmony.
Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling
Hi HN! We're Gobhanu and Saatvik (brothers), building Vela (https://tryvela.ai) - AI agents that handle multi-party, multi-channel scheduling.Scheduling is a constraint satisfaction problem disguised as email! It’s easy when it’s two people, one timezone, one channel. But it becomes a constraint satisfaction problem when inputs are unstructured natural language across multiple communication channels, constraints change mid-solve, and the objective function includes social dynamics
Show HN: ClickArmor – Countering ClickFix social engineering in browser
Hi HN,I built ClickArmor to detect ClickFix social engineering attacks directly in the page using page-behavior signals and command-pattern analysis. Everything runs locally in the browser — no telemetry, no API calls, no data collection.Detection layers include: - Clipboard write interception - Lure phrase analysis (Win+R, Ctrl+V instructions) - Fake CAPTCHA / fake browser update detection - Embedded command payload detection - Obfuscated loader detection - Multi-stage C2 loader detectionI
The Support Agent Who Never Burns Out
The Support Agent Who Never Burns Out Human-like AI teammates are quietly solving the problem that broke customer service. Meet Sarah. Sarah is your best customer support agent. She knows your product cold, handles difficult customers with patience, and resolves tickets faster than anyone on the team. She also called in sick Monday, runs on fumes by Thursday, and quit last April right after you finished training her replacement. This is the story nobody tells about customer service. The quiet st
Major college study links heavy social media use with higher odds of loneliness
Using social media for two hours a day does not seem like that much. It happens between classes, with a few scrolls on your lunch break and a little time before bed.
Psychological and Cognitive Perspectives on Human Interaction with Autonomous Vehicles
The rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology is reshaping transportation systems. However, its widespread adoption hinges not only on technical rel...
Why Our Bodies Synchronize During Social Interaction
Researchers explore interpersonal physiological synchrony—the alignment of heart rates and brain activity—as the biological basis for human empathy.
Psychology says the people who watch everything on social media but say nothing aren't disengaged — they're often the most observant people in any room, and ther…
While everyone else is busy crafting the perfect post, these silent scrollers are quietly becoming the most emotionally ...
Eric Quintane: 4 relationship traps that lead to burnout
Are your workplace relationships quietly burning you out? Drawing on large-scale research across industries, organizational behavior researcher Eric Quintane reveals four hidden relational traps woven into the fabric of work — and explores how connection shapes resilience, vulnerability and burnout.
Sarah Jones: Let's reframe cancel culture
Cancel culture launched a reckoning that was long overdue — but that doesn't mean it's getting everything right. Filmmaker and actor Sarah Jones slips in and out of various characters as she shares her personal experience with cancel culture and suggests a better way to hold others — and ourselves — to account.
Marina Abramović: An art made of trust, vulnerability and connection
Marina Abramović's art pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and personal change. In her groundbreaking 2010 work, "The Artist Is Present," she simply sat in a chair facing her audience, for eight hours a day ... with powerfully moving results. Her boldest work may still be yet to come -- it's tak...
Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs
'I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.' That is how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns he'd noticed in villages across the continent.
Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality
Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts demonstrate Aurasma, a new augmented reality tool that can seamlessly animate the world as seen through a smartphone. Going beyond previous augmented reality, their "auras" can do everything from making a painting talk to overlaying live news onto a printed newspaper.
Margaret Mitchell: How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us
As a research scientist at Google, Margaret Mitchell helps develop computers that can communicate about what they see and understand. She tells a cautionary tale about the gaps, blind spots and biases we subconsciously encode into AI -- and asks us to consider what the technology we create today will mean for tomorrow. "All that we see now is a ...
Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world
The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. In this inspiring talk, he lists the four core principles that show how this open world can be a far better place.
Judson Brewer: A simple way to break a bad habit
Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction -- from smoking to overeating to all those other things we do even though we know they're bad for us. Learn more about the mechanism of habit development and discover a simple but profound tactic that mi...
How tourism, a booming wellness culture and social media are transforming the age‑old Japanese tea ceremony
Małgorzata (Gosia) K. Citko-DuPlantis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...
David Fincher's 'The Social Network' turns 15: How it predicted our social media culture
India, Oct. 1 -- Can you imagine that it's been fifteen years since The Social Network (2010) movie was released? Fifteen! That's old enough for the film itself to have a Facebook page, and that seems ...