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Social Sciences Nov 8, 2023

Mouthfeel of food determines whether people go back for seconds

Are you a sucker, cruncher or chewer … maybe even a smoosher? Think about it: how do you taste your food?

Social Sciences Oct 18, 2023

Sexual harassment victims in Nigerian universities are being blamed—cyberspace study

Sexual harassment encompasses a wide range of inappropriate behavior, from ogling, touching and commenting about body parts, to sexual proposition, coercion, assault and rape. In other words, it is any form of unsolicited ...

Economics & Business Apr 20, 2023

ChatGPT is still no match for humans when it comes to accounting

Last month, OpenAI launched its newest AI chatbot product, GPT-4. According to the folks at OpenAI, the bot, which uses machine learning to generate natural language text, passed the bar exam with a score in the 90th percentile, ...

Education Apr 20, 2023

Research shows students with disabilities will benefit from COVID-19's fast-tracking of app-based learning

After COVID-19 moved classes online in 2020, a West Virginia University expert in adapted physical activity discovered that apps aren't created equal when it comes to accessibility.

Education Mar 27, 2023

How Black children in England's schools are made to feel like the way they speak is wrong

Whiteness is an invention of the modern, colonial age. It refers to the racialisation of white people and the disproportionate privilege—social, linguistic, economic, political—that comes with this. Crucially, as an invention, ...

Social Sciences Mar 20, 2023

A new approach to lie detection: The devil is in the details

Figuring out a lie has never been easier: forget body language or how convincing the message is, just listen to how detailed and rich the story is. This is the core of a new approach to lie detection, say researchers from ...

Social Sciences Nov 10, 2022

Navigating urban spaces: Indoor and outdoor wayfinding technology for vision-impaired people

Navigating an unfamiliar place is uniquely challenging for people with disabilities. People with blindness, deafblindness, visual impairment or low vision, as well as those who use wheelchairs, can travel more independently ...

Social Sciences Aug 9, 2022

Leadership online: Charisma matters most in video communication

Managers need to make a consistent impression in order to motivate and inspire people, and that applies even more to video communication than to other digital channels. That is the result of a study by researchers at Karlsruhe ...

Social Sciences Jul 18, 2022

Verbal insults trigger a 'mini slap to the face', finds new research

Hearing insults is like receiving a "mini slap in the face", regardless of the precise context the insult is made in. That is the conclusion of a new paper published in Frontiers in Communication. The researchers used electroencephalography ...

Social Sciences May 25, 2022

Spatial distribution of anti-Asian hate tweets during COVID-19

In January of 2020, SARS-CoV-2 reached the United States. With it came an even faster-spreading virus—xenophobic rhetoric referring to the pandemic's epicenter in Wuhan, China. Politicians flooded news outlets and social ...

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