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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...