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Investing in appearance makes us better contributors to society, experiments suggest
Researchers have found that when we invest in our appearance and feel we look better—whether in reality, online, or even just in our imagination—we behave more kindly and are twice as likely to donate to charity.
Social Sciences
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Companies that self-regulate to curb harmful practices increase profits, finds study
Companies in China that self-regulate to reduce harmful social practices—an increasingly prevalent strategy—are more likely to attract reputation-sensitive buyers and increase their exports to the Western world, new Cornell ...
Economics & Business
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New study explores negative effect of unethical practices on buyer-supplier relationships
In a business-to-business (B2B) supply chain context, business customers who conduct unfair and socially irresponsible business practices have been shown to have significantly decreased suppliers' intentions to continue their ...
Economics & Business
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Family matters: Living near relatives makes us heroic and harsh
Many of us will soak in the merriment and drama that family gatherings bring during Thanksgiving. But beyond the Thanksgiving dinner table, new research suggests that living and being around family more often affects our ...
Social Sciences
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Political opinions can influence our product choices, including chocolate, research finds
We distance ourselves from completely neutral products if they are liked by people who have political views that we find disagreeable. This is shown in four studies from Linköping University, Sweden. The behavior is reinforced ...
Social Sciences
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Research on discrimination: Access to professional networks is crucial
Half of all jobs in the U.S. are found through recommendations in informal networks, such as LinkedIn. High-paying jobs are usually filled by influential people with inside knowledge. Groups that are underrepresented on the ...
Social Sciences
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Oldest US firearm unearthed in Arizona, a bronze cannon linked to Coronado expedition
Independent researchers in Arizona have unearthed a bronze cannon linked to the Vázquez de Coronado expedition, making it the oldest firearm ever found in the continental United States. The discovery sheds new light on the ...
User language distorts ChatGPT information on armed conflicts, study shows
When asked in Arabic about the number of civilian casualties killed in the Middle East conflict, ChatGPT gives significantly higher casualty numbers than when the prompt was written in Hebrew, as a new study by the Universities ...
Social Sciences
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Herodotus' theory on Armenian origins debunked by first whole-genome study
Armenians, a population in Western Asia historically inhabiting the Armenian highlands, were long believed to be descendants of Phrygian settlers from the Balkans. This theory originated largely from the accounts of the Greek ...
Archaeology
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By first grade, children begin to perceive collective punishment as unfair
New University of Virginia research is pinpointing when young children begin recognizing what they believe to be unfair treatment in the classroom.
Social Sciences
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Historical analysis helps to re-date a King's tribute to his late English Queen
A historical document written by one of early medieval Europe's most important rulers to his beloved English queen has been re-dated following analysis by an Exeter historian.
Archaeology
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Study reveals pay gap between mothers and fathers that persists long after children grow up
Across America, the pandemic threw into sharp relief the challenges that parents—particularly mothers—face when balancing work with child rearing. But for professor Claudia Olivetti, that tension has been her life's work.
Social Sciences
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Acoustic properties of rock sites may have inspired prehistoric art
Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are ...
Archaeology
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Focaccia: A Neolithic culinary tradition dating back 9,000 years ago
A study led by researchers from the UAB and the University La Sapienza in Rome indicates that during the Late Neolithic, between 7000 and 5000 BCE, the fully agricultural communities in the Fertile Crescent region of the ...
Archaeology
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Researchers claim Tutankhamun's burial mask may have been made for a woman—but there is reason to doubt
Since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt over 100 years ago, the contents have been examined countless times. But new details continue to surprise archaeologists.
Archaeology
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Survey participants are turning to AI, putting academic research results into question
When academics and other researchers need to recruit people for large-scale surveys, they often rely upon crowdsourcing sites like Prolific or Amazon Mechanical Turk. Participants sign up to provide demographic information ...
Social Sciences
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Warm and friendly or competent and straightforward? What students want from AI chatbots in the classroom
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming education, with schools and universities increasingly experimenting with AI chatbots to assist students in self-directed learning.
Education
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Study finds suburban school districts diversified in 20 years, but urban districts saw more racial isolation
Even though Brown v. Board outlawed school segregation 70 years ago, American schools have remained segregated to a certain degree ever since. New research from the University of Kansas has found that school segregation is ...
Education
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Networked friendships may lower loneliness, research suggests
Loneliness is on the rise in the U.S., with a third of Americans reporting they've experienced "serious loneliness" in recent years. Lonely people are twice as likely to become depressed, and loneliness is a key risk factor ...
Social Sciences
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Why Monday is the most dangerous day on a building site
Australia's construction industry employs more than 1.3 million workers. That's about 9% of the workforce.
Economics & Business
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