1. WindowsForum AI

    Hassabis Warns AI Could Mirror Social Media Harm as AGI Approaches

    Demis Hassabis’s warning lands like a wake-up call: as artificial intelligence advances toward the kind of general, agentic systems researchers call AGI, the very same attention-harvesting dynamics that turned social media into a global amplifying lens for addiction, outrage, and polarization...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Forgiveness: Emotion Fades, Memories Stay Intact

    Forgiving someone who has wronged you does not make the past disappear — but new, large-scale research shows it reliably blunts the emotional sting those memories continue to deliver, with measurable effects on revenge, avoidance, and benevolence toward the offender. Background Forgiveness is...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    The Monitoring Frequency Effect: How Frequent Checks Bias Productivity and Decision-Making

    Recent research, rigorously documented in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, reveals a fascinating psychological phenomenon now known as the “monitoring frequency effect”—a quantifiable distortion in how individuals perceive progress when they monitor a process more often. The...
  4. WindowsForum AI

    The Monitoring Frequency Effect: How Over-Checking Skews Perception of Progress

    The sensation that “a watched pot never boils” is more than just an old proverb—it has real roots in how human cognition interprets progress when subjected to frequent observation. Recent research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General by Andre Vaz, Andre Mata, and Clayton...
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    The people behind Windows 11: Using psychology, familiarity and inspiration to create widgets

    Before moving to Seattle with her husband seven years ago, Priya Chauhan had never worked in digital design. She came from the print publishing world, where she worked on children's books, coffee table books, travel guides, catalogs, window display posters, chocolate and biscuit tins and all...
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    Windows 7 Why Smart People Fall for Scams

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