The pervasive spread of misinformation can be tracked to cognitive limitations, social influence and the global spread of ...

In today’s disconnected world, college students can go a whole semester without ever learning their classmates’ names. One ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. Social class can be a touchy subject. Some people seem ...

For decades, researchers have debated how social class affects a person’s likelihood of helping others. There are two main schools of thought on the topic. One hypothesizes that because lower-income ...

Outside of literal language development and nonverbal communication — both of which tend to be influenced by poverty and income level, according to a study from the University of Michigan — there are ...