Male orb-weaving spiders fight less in female-dominated colonies, finds study of spider cooperation
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even spiders in their webs do it: cooperate for more peaceful colonies.
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even spiders in their webs do it: cooperate for more peaceful colonies.
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2022
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Takeovers are usually friendly affairs. Corporate executives engage in top-secret talks, with one company or group of investors making a bid for another business. After some negotiating, the companies engaged in the merger ...
Economics & Business
Apr 19, 2022
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In March 2022, Russia took censorship to new extremes, blocking access to Facebook and enacting a law that threatened to punish coverage of its war on Ukraine with forced labor and imprisonment. To what extent does censorship ...
Political science
Mar 16, 2022
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Online hostility has become a bigger problem over recent years, particularly with people spending more time on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. A U.S. survey found four in ten Americans have experienced harassment ...
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2022
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The idea of creating selectively porous materials has captured the attention of chemists for decades. Now, new research from Northwestern University shows that fungi may have been doing exactly this for millions of years.
Materials Science
Mar 5, 2021
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The bacterium Bacillus anthracis—the cause of the serious infectious disease anthrax—has been used as a bioterror agent. Understanding how B. anthracis adapts to hostile environments to cause infection may identify new ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 15, 2020
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It might not be obvious, but there are many similarities between working deep underground and in outer space.
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2019
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Whether it's at rescue and firefighting operations or deep-sea inspections, mobile robots finding their way around unknown situations with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) can effectively support people in carrying ...
Machine learning & AI
Jun 25, 2019
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It seems like internet trolling happens everywhere online these days – and it's showing no signs of slowing down.
Other
Feb 4, 2019
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Why do some Westerners attack Muslim minorities and asylum seekers and why do some Muslims support and engage in terror against the West? New research suggests that the reasons for such extreme behaviour might be the same ...
Social Sciences
Jan 31, 2018
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Hostility (also called inimicality) is a form of angry internal rejection or denial in psychology. It is a part of personal construct psychology, developed by George Kelly. In everyday speech it is more commonly used as a synonym for anger and aggression.
In psychological terms, Kelly defined hostility as the willful refusal to accept evidence that one's perceptions of the world are in some way askew from or out of alignment with objective reality. Instead of realigning one's feelings and thoughts with objective reality, the hostile person attempts to force or coerce the world to fit their view, even if this is a forlorn hope, and even if it entails varying degrees of emotional expenditure or harm to self and others.
While challenging "apparent reality" with alternative approaches can be a useful part of life, and persistence in the face of failure is often a valuable trait in the fields of invention or discovery, in the case of hostility there is the distinction that the evidence is not accurately assessed when the decision is made to repeat the same approach. Instead the evidence is suppressed or denied, and deleted from awareness - the unfavorable evidence which might suggest that a prior belief is flawed is to various degrees ignored and willfully avoided. Metaphorically, it can be said that reality is being held for ransom, and in this sense hostility is a form of psychological extortion - an attempt to force reality to produce the desired feedback, in order that preconceptions become validated. In this sense, hostility is a response that forms part of discounting of unwanted cognitive dissonance.
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