Society

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can uncover patterns invisible to common approaches. In their paper titled “Integrative experiments identify how punishment affects […]

Friends can help us with all kinds of things in life. How could I forget moving that piano for friends in Chicago? Fortunately, none of us ended up in the ER.This post was originally published […]

As geopolitical tensions rise globally, a new study published in Critical Studies on Security warns that the shadow of the “mushroom cloud” is weighing heavily on the next generation. The research paper, titled “Mushrooms, cranes, […]

The Global Flourishing Study (GFS), the most comprehensive empirical investigation of human flourishing ever undertaken, has made its first two waves of data publicly available through the Center for Open Science at no cost and […]

A medieval ophthalmologist who translated Greek works by Galen, Hippocrates, and Plato into Arabic played a pivotal role in shaping Western medical scholarship, according to a study published in the journal Cogent Arts and Humanities.This […]

Most elementary school-aged children have a surprising cognitive ability: they can detect—nearly as well as adults—when someone treats people from one social group differently than another. The study, “Children’s and adults’ detection of social biases,” […]

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars concluding that only humans possess the foundations of this understanding. However, a new analysis […]

When people are talking, they can start to unconsciously mirror each other, for instance, in the words they use, their sentence structures and even hand gestures. This tendency to mirror others can lead to smoother […]

Humor plays a vital role in helping older adults cope with the challenges of aging and staying socially connected, according to new research.This post was originally published on this website.

New research from Michigan State University challenges the popular assumption that narcissists gradually damage their relationships over time.This post was originally published on this website.