Study says forget email, put a face on that plea
Forget that email, suggests one Western researcher. When you want results, look folks in the eye.
Forget that email, suggests one Western researcher. When you want results, look folks in the eye.
Social Sciences
May 11, 2017
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(Phys.org)—According to a new study, there are more familiar strangers in our lives than friends, coworkers, and all other acquaintances combined. Encounters with familiar strangers, defined as pairs of individuals who ...
Why are some people always jerks? Yale University psychologists have developed a mathematical model that provides an answer, and also helps to explain why the rest of us are usually nice, even to strangers.
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2016
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Police in western Germany have issued an urgent appeal to parents: don't post photos of your children on social media websites for all to see.
Internet
Oct 14, 2015
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Creating pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods with trees, footpaths, parks, shops and cafes could be the key to allaying parents' age-old fears about stranger danger, according to a Perth study.
Social Sciences
May 20, 2015
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The ability to express empathy—the capacity to share and feel another's emotions—is limited by the stress of being around strangers, according to a new study published today in the journal Current Biology.
Other
Jan 15, 2015
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A study from the University of Kansas finds that people can accurately detect the personality traits of strangers through Facebook activity; however, changes to the social media site in the past three years could be making ...
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2014
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Empathy-driven behavior has been observed in rats who will free trapped companions from restrainers. This behavior also extends toward strangers, but requires prior, positive social interactions with the type (strain) of ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2014
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Nearly all parents agree—when their children go online, stranger danger is their biggest safety concern, followed closely by exposure to pornography, violent content and bullying, according to a collaborative study between ...
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2013
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Dogs yawn contagiously when they see a person yawning, and respond more frequently to their owner's yawns than to a stranger's, according to research published August 7 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Teresa Romero ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2013
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