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Stories by Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Behavior & Society

How GPS Weakens Memory—and What We Can Do about It

A new app helps you navigate, not with turn-by-turn directions but via audio “beacons”

May 7, 2021 — Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Gregory Dane Clemenson and Amos Miller | Opinion

Behavior & Society

Would You Give a Virtual Electric Shock to an Avatar?

In a repeat of a classic experiment, we find that people who are only unenthusiastically obeying unethical orders still experience trauma

April 12, 2019 — Mar Gonzalez-Franco and Mel Slater

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