American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology

11/10/2022

"We have so far preserved more than 1.9 million “ephemeral experiences” – exposure to short-lived content that impacts people and then disappears, leaving no trace – that Google and other companies are able to use to shift opinions and voting preferences, and we expect to have captured more than 2.5 million by Election Day."

My research team is currently monitoring online political content being sent to voters in swing states, and we are concerned about what we’re seeing.

10/12/2022

Parenting is hard—we all know that.

We all have different approaches to parenting, yet certain parenting skills have shown to increase positive outcomes in child development. See above for our top 10 essential parenting skills, based on scientific data from about 2,000 parents.

Curious about your own parenting competencies? Take the Epstein Parenting Competencies Inventory here: MyParentingSkills.com

For more information, please check out Dr. Epstein’s article in Scientific American Mind titled “What Makes a Good Parent?”

09/07/2022

With the number of variant cases rising around the country, we must come together and take necessary precautions to keep our community safe. Earlier last year, Dr. Robert Epstein devised a comprehensive plan, known as the Carrier Separation Plan (CSP), to quickly stop the transmission of the virus from the population and reopen the economy without the need for social distancing or a vaccine. To read more on the CSP, click here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.640009/full

06/24/2016

Sixth sense confirmed: Magnetoreception

Researchers are testing to see if humans use Earth’s magnetic field like animals

06/22/2016

9 Ways Google is Censoring the Internet

How did Google become the internet’s censor and master manipulator, blocking access to millions of websites?

06/12/2016

New media coverage based on research conducted at AIBRT!

With SourceFed's video out in the wild, it opens up a broader discussion on whether or not Google controls the opinions of millions through its products.

10/18/2015

Somewhere, someone is looking through your files.

09/30/2015

"The debate brings into focus the question of how or whether psychologists should offer their expertise to spy agencies engaged in deception and propaganda."

Dr. Mandeep K. Dhami wrote a 42-page paper advising the controversial GCHQ spy unit JTRIG — work some peers have blasted as unethical...

09/09/2015

How observant are you?

A special case of information-selection by the human cognitive system. The brain seems to select the information worth to process, or most relevant, at every...

09/07/2015

Dr Robert Epstein, our Senior Research Psychologist was on Larry King's show last week.

Could the technology behemoth Google actually rig the upcoming presidential election? Larry discusses with distinguished scholar, scientist and award-winning author Dr. Robert Epstein on PoliticKING.

08/25/2015

Our research has been used in a satire! Glorious day

08/10/2015

AIBRT research on search engines is in the Washington Post

Undecided voters can be heavily swayed by how a search engine returns its results.