Joelle Renstrom is a science writer and teaches at Boston University. Trying to change someone’s mind in an online or social media exchange is about as effective as flapping your arms to fly. That’s ...

An anonymous team from the University of Zurich wanted to see if bots could change someone's mind, but they didn't get permission to use them on Reddit. Mods are livid. Bots are common on social media ...

Julian Barnes opens Changing My Mind, his brisk new book about our unruly intellects, with a quote famously attributed to the economist John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind.” ...

OpenAI’s GPT-4 is much better at getting people to accept its point of view during an argument than humans are—but there’s a catch. Millions of people argue with each other online every day, but ...

I love shrimp. I’ll eat it grilled, sautéed, tossed in pasta, or dipped in cocktail sauce. But here’s the catch—my parents have no idea. Why? Because when I was a kid, I wouldn’t touch shrimp with a ...

Samar Minallah Khan, the feminist Pakistani anthropologist and filmmaker, was enraged. Local tribal leaders were trading little girls as compensation for their male family members’ crimes. Nilofer ...