It is hard not to admit the pervasive impact that beauty has on our lives. As of 2023, beauty is the third most popular category among global Instagram influencers, only after music and lifestyle. The ...

Does it matter how effect sizes are communicated to non-academic audiences? Two new studies illustrate the malleability of statistical perception. One paper examined how educational effects are ...

KARACHI: Gullibility is largely to do with innocence. A lack of shrewdness can make one susceptible to betrayal and treachery. But when artists touch upon this subject, they often go beyond the ...

For the past several days*, the Bitcoin network has been plagued by a so-called “transaction malleability attack.” Bitcoin users have experienced a number of annoyances, causing confusion and ...

Everyone has thought it: If I could just press rewind; if I could go back in time and reverse events, then I could make things better. And then the reality of our unidirectional “arrow of time” ...

Cohen-Chen, Smadar, Amit Goldenberg, James J. Gross, and Eran Halperin. "Malleability Interventions in Intergroup Relations." Chap. 7 in Psychological Intergroup Interventions: Evidence-based ...

Goldenberg, Amit, J. J. Gross, and Eran Halperin. "The Group Malleability Intervention: Addressing Intergroup Conflicts by Changing Perceptions of Outgroup Malleability." Chap. 15 in Handbook of Wise ...

It's an attack that lets someone change the unique ID of a bitcoin transaction before it is confirmed on the bitcoin network. The change makes it possible for someone to pretend that a transaction ...