Personalization Algorithms Are Quietly Changing How Your Brain Learns, New Study Warns

Photo credit: Tima Miroshnichenko via Pexels. Article by Tim McMillan. The Debrief – November 27, 2025. Research article: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

In an era when nearly everything we see online is filtered, tuned, and optimized for our personal tastes, the information we don’t encounter may matter just as much as what appears on our screens. According to a new study, the same algorithms designed to keep us clicking may also quietly reshape how we learn, what we believe, and how confident we feel about both—even when we’re wrong. […]

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