A new UCLA study challenges long-standing research claims that people of East Asian and European origins perform differently on a well-known visual perception test. The rod-and-frame task asks viewers ...

Almost everyone is familiar with the placebo effect. Patients who believe they have received an effective remedy tend to feel better and show improvement, even when the remedy is a sham treatment or ...

Cultural identity is an elusive notion because it depends on a wide range of different cultural factors—including politics, religion, ethnicity, economics, and art, among countless other ...

What is the role of culture in how we understand and categorize emotions? This study takes a novel approach to address this long-debated issue by investigating whether specific cultural dimensions ...

AI models’ outputs need to be properly explained to the people affected. DrAfter123/Getty Images Humans are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to inform decisions about our lives. AI is, ...

In 2018, a group of French scientists covered a male fruit fly in pink dust before introducing him to a room full of virgin females. In a parallel room, they did the same thing but dusted him in green ...