Social Robots and Deception (SOP63)
How people interact with robots is influenced by the robots’ characteristics. Whether a robot has eyes or arms or a human-like voice affects our response to them. Jeff Hancock, PhD, has studied the re...
5 Sep 201821min
The Internet of Things and Consumer Risk (SOP62)
Internet of Things devices such as smart televisions and thermostats often lack adequate built-in security, leading to privacy and safety risks not commonly understood by consumers. John Blythe, PhD, ...
15 Aug 201814min
Online Risks (SOP61)
Every day, we are all called on to make online security decisions. Psychologist Emma Williams studies the contexts in which we make these decisions in an effort to develop safer practices. APA is cur...
25 Jul 201821min
Twitter and ADHD (SOP60)
Looking at large numbers of social media postings in aggregate can tell us quite a bit about Americans’ mental state. Sharath Guntuku, PhD, has analyzed the language in tweets to identify regional var...
11 Jul 201810min
Big Data (SOP59)
Social physics is the idea of using statistics to quantify and manage change in culture. This idea inspired the modern national census, but the difficulty of acquiring data limited what could be accom...
20 Jun 201821min
Suicide Contagion (SOP58)
Conventional wisdom says that impressionable individuals will imitate all kinds of behaviors they see in movies and on TV — including suicide, especially in the wake of the TV series "13 Reasons Why."...
6 Jun 201811min
Self-Driving Cars (SOP57)
Several technology and automotive companies are already testing highly automated vehicles on public roads, and many automobiles can be driven with the assistance of semi-automated systems. Through the...
16 Mai 201819min
Raising Children in the Digital Age (SOP56)
Touchscreen use among children is ubiquitous. But how much is too much, and is there an age before which you shouldn’t hand a child a smartphone or tablet? Roberta Golinkoff, PhD, discusses how this r...
2 Mai 201819min
