High status leads to increased happiness—sometimes
Is it worth the effort to seek high status in a group or setting for which a person has no real passion? New Cornell research suggests the answer is "no."
Is it worth the effort to seek high status in a group or setting for which a person has no real passion? New Cornell research suggests the answer is "no."
Social Sciences
May 9, 2024
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Silent discos started back in the 1970s as a convenient way to get around noise restrictions. In those days that meant everyone bringing their own music loaded onto a Walkman. Later, DJs would set up their own radio channels ...
Social Sciences
May 9, 2024
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Jonah Berger and Olivier Toubia used natural language processing to understand what drives academic success. The authors analyzed over 20,000 college application essays from a large public university that attracts students ...
Education
May 8, 2024
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English learners are, on average, less likely to graduate high school in four years than students who never needed to learn English in school. But social identities like race and gender make a difference, and some groups ...
Social Sciences
May 6, 2024
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Identifying with an activity is different from actually doing it.
Social Sciences
May 1, 2024
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Stoners are not as lazy and unmotivated as stereotypes suggest, according to new U of T Scarborough research.
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2024
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The emergence in the Neolithic of patrilineal social systems, in which children are affiliated with their father's lineage, may explain a spectacular decline in the genetic diversity of the Y chromosome observed worldwide ...
Archaeology
Apr 24, 2024
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The phrase "single life" may conjure images of a busy "Sex and the City"-like social calendar, packed with dates and drama. But researchers at the University of Toronto say that most singles are actually introverts—a far ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 10, 2024
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In mammals, social behavior and social status can substantially influence the survival, reproductive performance, and health of individuals. However, it is not yet fully understood how the translation of social and environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2024
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The King of New Zealand's Indigenous Maori people made an impassioned call Thursday for whales to be granted the same legal rights as people in a bid to protect the hallowed yet vulnerable species.
Ecology
Mar 28, 2024
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