“People don’t realize the persuasive power of visualization, and they’re not as vigilant to critically think about the data they interact with.” For example, people tend to trust the information in an ...

Kapil Komireddi is the India-based author of Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India. This week Canada expelled half a dozen Indian diplomats and accused New Delhi of running a ...

In a series of studies, we set out to answer those questions. Our findings reveal that numbers have persuasive power—but they need to be employed with care to compel action. The lessons we ...

The Lancet is now accepting submissions for the Wakley Prize Essay competition 2024. The Wakley Prize, named after Thomas Wakley who founded The Lancet in 1823, is awarded to the best discursive essay ...

Artificial intelligence has made it extraordinarily simple to copy someone’s voice — allowing thousands of audio impersonations, known as “deepfakes,” to flood the internet since early last year. With ...

They have to be more circumspect and make their points implicitly. One way to be implicitly persuasive is to presuppose something rather than state it outright. One of the differences between the ...