In 2022, former Nexium executive Sarah Edmondson testified before Congress about the sophisticated psychological techniques used to recruit and retain members in what prosecutors described...
In 2020, during the height of pandemic-driven remote work, a senior financial analyst at a Fortune 500 company approved a wire transfer for $2.3 million...
In 1938, Orson Welles’ broadcast of «War of the Worlds» demonstrated something profound about human cognition: even educated audiences could mistake fiction for reality when...
In 1971, psychologist B.F. Skinner demonstrated that pigeons could be conditioned to obsessively peck at levers through variable ratio reinforcement schedules—the same psychological mechanism that...
Operation Overlord’s Deceptive Legacy in Cold War Propaganda Imagine you’re a Soviet intelligence analyst in 1952, poring over captured German archives about Allied deception operations...
The Ideological Battlefield: How Cold War Propaganda Shaped Modern Information Warfare In 1961, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stood before the United Nations General Assembly and...
The cognitive vulnerability of confirmation bias in modern disinformation warfare In 2016, a fabricated story claiming Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump spread across social...
When Psychological Science Becomes Adversarial Tradecraft In December 2019, attackers impersonating a CEO convinced a Hong Kong subsidiary to transfer $35 million to fraudulent accounts...
Understanding Online Radicalization Pathways in the Digital Age In 2018, researchers at YouTube conducted an internal investigation into their recommendation algorithm’s role in directing viewers...