When eyewitnesses are called on to identify crime suspects, how likely are they to make mistakes? Should their seeing equate to believing?
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2020
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Dating apps won't help you much if your goal is to have more relationships. You would probably succeed just as well—or poorly—without it.
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2019
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Some research shows facts are better received when presented on their own. Other studies show facts are more accepted when interwoven with stories; stories can help bridge emotional connections. If someone is trying to persuade ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2019
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Societies and people have reshaped the world many times over. From building cities and communities that live within them, to the smaller changes in a person's home or place of worship, people influence their space. Benjamin ...
Social Sciences
May 30, 2019
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Sylvie Graf and Sabine Sczesny from the Institute of Psychology at the University of Bern are investigating how positivity or negativity of news about immigrants and language that describes immigrants in mass media shape ...
Social Sciences
May 23, 2019
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Imagine you are blindfolded and placed into a pool of water with a dolphin. The dolphin performs a movement, such as spinning in a circle, or swimming in a zig-zag pattern, and your task is to imitate this movement, without ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2019
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If a man offers to help a woman with her heavy suitcase or to parallel park her car, what should she make of the offer?
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2018
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Researchers at Idiap and EPFL have been working with psychologists to understand how people form first impressions from photos. They focused on how people respond to properties available on Airbnb. Better analysis of human ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 9, 2018
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In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, many claims have been made that science denial, particularly as it relates to climate change, is primarily a problem of the political right.
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2017
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Our nation is divided, says Josh Klapow, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, perhaps more than any time since the Civil War. Klapow says partisan politics, the nonstop 24-hour news cycle ...
Social Sciences
Jun 27, 2017
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