“The media is 10x more likely to describe experiences of being alone as negative, as compared to positive.” Psychologist Ethan Kross shares how reframing the idea of loneliness can help us feel more peace when we’re on our own.

From Allen Funt to Donald Trump, author Emily Nussbaum explains how reality TV has blurred the lines between, well, reality and TV.

Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.

Concerns about privacy and pressures regarding the physical appearance of women and their homes contributed to the failure of AT&T’s 1960s Picturephone.

The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.

Pessimism reigned supreme.

A new 20-year analysis of over 14,000 psychology studies finds that a study's media coverage is negatively linked to its replicability.

If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.

Late-night shows, developed during the "golden age" of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.

The media is deliberately pushing your buttons.

Turning away is a natural response.

Moral panics about the content of children's cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.

The researchers consumed a lot of wine while watching 15 seasons of the show.

While there is more to North Korean cinema than meets the eye, the country’s film industry ultimately amounts to little more than a mouthpiece for the ruling Kim dynasty. 

The idea that the news can make you sick has a long history.

Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers around the world condemned them as an “invasive weed” that caused mental illnesses and even murder.

Just don't expect the apocalypse to look like it does in the movies.

Hit shows are like societal mirrors, capable of reflecting the cultural zeitgeist whose likeness they try to record. 

In spreading politics, videos may not be much more persuasive than their text-based counterparts.

Released in 1972, "Ways of Seeing" has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.

If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.