Moderating content on today’s internet is akin to a round of Whack-A-Mole with human moderators continually forced to react in realtime to changing trends, such as vaccine mis- and disinformation or ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Aggression, according to social psychology, describes any behavior or act aimed at harming a person or animal or damaging physical property. A few examples of aggressive acts: acts of physical ...

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I wrote Part I of this post last Friday (though I didn't know it was Part I at the time). The comments it generated made me realize that you'd like more information about how to do this -- that is, ...

A video of a modern shellfish by paleontologists suggests a way to test theories about the behavior of fossilized specimens. Paleontologists agree that it's difficult to observe behavior in fossil ...