A Universal, Mechanistic, and Testable Framework for Measuring Alignment, Coherence, and Consequence Across Human Behavior and social Structures The Law of Alignment measures reality, not intention.

Hallucinations are more common than we think, and they may be an underlying mechanism for how our brains experience the world. One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe ...

A study led by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has determined that the size and composition of our social support networks directly influence how we perceive our body image. The findings could ...

1 Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 2 School of Marxism, Lyuliang University, Lüliang, Shanxi, China Political identity is key to maintaining social ...

Leeds Beckett University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, ...

For some, social media is a place to engage with politics, whether it’s to share information about protests or learn about candidates for office. But how valuable do Americans think social media is ...

In this article, we situate the social psychologist and philosopher Fritz Heider’s theory within what we call “early social cognition,” a historical approach preceding and radically differing from ...

Few if any programs of the U.S. government touch as many people as directly as Social Security. Nearly every working American pays Social Security taxes, and more than 55 million people receive ...

COPENHAGEN, May 12 (Reuters) - Global perceptions of the United States have deteriorated across the world over the past year and are now worse than views of China, according to an annual study of ...

An object's color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds — for different viewers. But that doesn't mean colors are subjective. When you purchase through links ...

What, exactly, does a social network do? Is it a website that connects people with one another online, a digital gathering place where we can consume content posted by our friends? That’s certainly ...

The impact of social media on young people’s mental health and well-being is a growing topic of concern among parents, educators, health care professionals and regulators. And now, nearly half of US ...