Society

• How an eye physician who translated classical Greek medicine into Arabic helped form Western medical thought
• By age 7, most children quickly spot individuals' social biases toward social groups, study finds
• Analysis finds geometric thinking may come from wandering, not a human-only math module
• Alignment during conversations is highly situation-dependent, study finds
• Humor helps older adults navigate aging, research suggests
• Do narcissists ruin relationships over time? A six-year study suggests a more complex pattern
• Rudeness may be rewarded—as a response to rudeness
• AI's fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users
• Going from serving the nation to serving a prison sentence
• Study suggests people are losing 338 spoken words every year and have been for at least 15 years
• Book explores small talk and big silence in evangelical communities
• Social media enables mapping of public perceptions of redlining across the U.S.
• Are relationship surveys measuring the wrong thing? How one 'Q-factor' shapes most answers
• Can you trust a finding? A new project maps which studies replicate
• Is true empathy possible between humans and AI?