The choices we make in large group settings—such as in online forums and social media—might seem fairly automatic to us. But our decision-making process is more complicated than we know. So, researchers have been working ...
Social Sciences
Nov 27, 2019
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Compare human social behavior at a country level and you will find differences. Japan has the highest score whereas the Netherlands is just above average. This is what psychologist Niels van Doesem discovered in research ...
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2021
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Creole languages neither retain all grammatical features of their origin languages, as some have claimed, nor are creoles the simplest grammars in the world, according to a new analysis published in Nature by the University ...
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2020
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A team of researchers at Columbia University has carried out experiments with macaques and in so doing has found evidence that suggests they are capable of inference-based thinking. In their paper published in the journal ...
We've all experienced dreams that have left us feeling a little anxious—like writing a test we're not prepared for, losing a loved one, or being chased by something threatening.
Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2023
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When astronauts set off for a trip around the moon in 2024 with NASA's Artemis II mission, they will go primed with knowledge of lunar landmarks gathered by one of the Agency's premiere robotic missions to our nearest cosmic ...
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2023
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Several years ago, Christian Rutz started to wonder whether he was giving his crows enough credit. Rutz, a biologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and his team were capturing wild New Caledonian crows and ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2023
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An article published in the Journal of Social Epistemology entitled "Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the Newspaper Press" authored by Central European University researchers Akos Szegofi and Christophe Heintz ...
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2022
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The images to emerge from the James Webb Space Telescope have captured details of the cosmos never seen before, leaving the scientific community and public alike in a state of awe. In a Tweet, former President Barack Obama ...
Astronomy
Sep 6, 2022
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Understanding the human mind and behavior lies at the core of the discipline of psychology. But to characterize how people's behavior changes over time, I believe psychology alone is insufficient—and that additional mathematical ...
Mathematics
Jun 27, 2022
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