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'Making memories' via social media is an increasingly 'crucial' part of live events
Eventgoers' live experiences are shaped by media technologies like social media, whether used in the moment or not, and memory and anticipation are increasingly part of live experiences themselves, research published in the ...
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Common phrases, not fancy words, can make you sound more fluent in a foreign language
Language learners often assume that using rare, complex vocabulary will make their speech sound more fluent. Research suggests that there is a close relationship between formulaic expression usage in speech and acoustic features ...
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Investment behaviors characterized by masculinity can negatively impact returns, study finds
A new study posted to the SSRN preprint server by researchers from the University of Mannheim and the University of Essex shows that male and female fund managers invest in different sectors—influenced by their own consumption ...
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Gender role beliefs can shape desire for parenthood
Lead researchers Nicole Hiekel from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and Katia Begall from the Radboud Universiteit examined how gender role attitudes influence family planning decisions. The researchers ...
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Would you join the resistance if stuck in an authoritarian regime? Here's the psychology behind such a move
Most of us like to believe we would have opposed the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. We may even like to imagine that we would have bravely fought for the resistance to Nazism in the 1940s. But would we? Our ability to take ...
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Fathers' consistent parenting nurtures bonds through teen years
Children who grow up with their fathers under the same roof tend to feel close to them, forming strong relationships that last through challenging teenage years, according to a new study.
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'How was school today?' How to help kids open up and say more than 'fine'
One of the first things parents want to ask their children after school is "how was your day?" We simply want to know how they are going and what happened at school.
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What 'Adolescence' gets right (and wrong) about the manosphere
In the final episode of Netflix's harrowing miniseries, "Adolescence," the parents of Jamie Miller—the 13-year-old boy accused of killing a girl at his school that precipitates the events of the show—grapple with the ...
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White Americans in areas with higher Black poverty more likely to attribute racial disparities to lack of effort: Study
New research in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that white Americans living in counties with higher Black poverty rates are more likely to believe racial equality of opportunity exists, while attributing ...
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An app can change how you see yourself at work
By most accounts, confidence is a prerequisite for workplace success. What if it could be trained, even subtly rewired, using something as simple as a smartphone app?
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Apr 2, 2025
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How Florida volunteers build trust and bond with youth in foster care
Each year, more than 500,000 children and youth are served by the United States foster care system. In Florida, Guardian ad Litems (GALs) are appointed by the court to represent children in cases of abuse, abandonment, or ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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Subtitles unlikely to improve early reading skills, researchers find
Public campaigns backed by celebrities and politicians have argued that television subtitles may dramatically improve children's reading abilities. However, there has been no convincing research evidence for these claims.
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Apr 2, 2025
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Examining effects of insufficient sleep on work performance—researcher presents how sleep habits can be managed
Persistent fatigue caused by insufficient sleep is a common and growing problem among working-age people, but sleep deprivation is rarely discussed in the workplace. According to Jenni Tuomilehto's doctoral dissertation at ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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Study reveals key reasons young people fail to save for retirement
Young people's pessimism about their longevity partly explains why they under-save for retirement, new research from Bayes Business School suggests.
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Apr 2, 2025
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What parents need to know to talk to their children about the manosphere
The success of Netflix drama Adolescence, along with concerns about misogynistic influencers such as Andrew Tate, has brought the "manosphere" into public discussion.
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Apr 2, 2025
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Refugees define success on their own terms, study finds
Refugees resettled in the U.S. often define success in ways that go far beyond economic self-sufficiency, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis. Published in Refugee Survey ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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Feeling FOMO for something that's not even fun? It's not the event you're missing, it's the bonding
Imagine you've planned the trip of a lifetime for your animal-loving family: a cruise to Antarctica with the unique opportunity to view penguins, whales and other rare wildlife. Your adventure-loving kids can kayak through ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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Most Christian religious leaders accept the reality of climate change but have never mentioned it to their congregations
Nearly 90% of U.S. Christian religious leaders believe humans are driving climate change. When churchgoers learn how widespread this belief is, they report taking steps to reduce its effects, as we found in our research published ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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The never-ending sentence: How parole and probation fuel mass incarceration
The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state and local facilities. Another 3.7 million ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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'Adolescence' on Netflix: A painful wake-up call about unregulated internet use for teens
In the Netflix series "Adolescence," we have no idea why Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is arrested at the beginning of the first episode. The tension from seeing a helpless 13-year-old boy escorted to a police station and interrogated ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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