When learning without any social influence, a different part of the brain, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex was involved. Persuasion Essential Reads. People Don’t Believe What You Say?

The results showed that older people were more susceptible to social influence, especially from the more impulsive person. After seeing someone who consistently chooses the impulsive option, older ...

What last names reveal about social mobility. Americans pride themselves in living in the "land of opportunity." ...

Social influence from phone communications is significant, reaching as far as four degrees of separation from the original caller, according to a new study.

Foreign influence campaigns, or information operations, have been widespread in the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election. Influence campaigns are large-scale efforts to shift public opinion ...

Truth Social, the right-wing social network, has faced one business calamity after the next since it launched in February. Two executives resigned after its app launch was mired with problems ...

The influence of social media during elections A political expert in Hampton Roads weighs in on social media's influence on elections. To stream 13News Now on your phone, you need the 13News Now app.

Meta, the social media company that owns Facebook and Instagram, said Thursday that this year it has taken down five networks of fake accounts originating in China that aimed to influence politics ...