behavior
31/07/2022 - 15:02
When half a million people completed an online questionnaire in 2018 the participants who were in their 20s and 30s said on... →
11/10/2020 - 15:44
The ever-growing fossil record fills in one missing link in the quest for evidence of protohumans, only to expose another. Meanwhile, no... →
02/07/2019 - 11:11
Two decades ago psychologists came up with the now infamous “dark triad” of personality traits to understand why some people... →
10/04/2019 - 12:58
But critics are starting to push back. In a new study, scientists argue such work is often superficial, statistically weak, and presents an... →
18/09/2018 - 16:42
Experts from Northwestern University sifted through data from more than 1.5 million questionnaire respondents to make the finding.... →
14/07/2018 - 12:06
Suicide claims the lives of more than 120 Americans each day. Each year, more Americans die from suicide than were killed in... →
05/11/2017 - 14:13
Although this was the first demonstration of such bias at a global scale, its existence is hardly surprising. Survey data show that... →
16/08/2017 - 12:42
But a new study complicates the narrative that only unintelligent people are prejudiced. The paper, published recently in the Journal... →
31/07/2016 - 12:37
It was only in the early 1900s that British doctors realised that the housefly could carry disease on its bristly legs: flies were a major... →
05/02/2016 - 13:02
Why are young men like this? Part of it seems to depend on testosterone, acting on their brain during early foetal life. Exposure in the... →
07/09/2015 - 12:42
Kruger and Dunning were interested in testing another kind of laughing matter. They asked professional comedians to rate 30 jokes for... →
04/06/2015 - 15:45
What is now becoming clear is that some of our eye movements may actually reveal our thought process. Research published last year shows... →