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Your car left you down and you have an airplane to catch...what will you do?
Mens sana in corpore sano - this old latin way of saying correlates physical health (corpore sano) with mental activity (mens sana). But how can we cope with...
Playing can be seen as the "gym" of life for children. Therefore we encourage them to pretend-play the real-life ahead of them. However, given the choice,...
Every day, we interpret the actions of other people in terms of what they want and how hard they’re willing to try.This ability appears to emerge early in...
Previous research has studied the role of facial muscle movements in the visual transmission of emotion. Here, we hypothesize that blood flow changes, visible...
Leaders and bullies! When do we start to distinguish between a power based on fear and coercion and a power based on mutual respect? It seems that infants...
With an estimated 3 to 6 percent of the population possibly having compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), it is now being researched like never before....
After several decades of increasing IQ scores, the average score of Norwegian male conscripts began to decline with the birth cohorts born after 1975. Both the...
Humans like to think of their judgments as ‘rational’, solely based on objective information. Instead, we have found that people interpret decision-relevant...
Does screen time precede developmental delays, or do children showing delays in development receive more screen time to manage challenging behaviors? We have...
Memory may not work in the same way for all humans. One important factor that might affect our ability to store and recall information is the language we...
Using data collected from pregnancy throughout the lives of many thousand children we have shown that the personality of the mother is strongly associated with...
Are parts in film and TV fairly allocated? How long will an actor or actresses good, or bad, luck last? Can we predict if my favourite actor is going to be...
Violence is a serious public health problem. Prison is often the response to preventing violence, but it's unclear how much it achieves this goal. In our...
A stimulus never associated before with danger becomes frightening when elements of a past sensory memory become integrated into a new fear memory. But when...
Women remain strongly underrepresented in math-related fields. We showed that the difference between 15-y-old students' math and reading abilities influences...
Anorexia nervosa is a deadly disorder marked by extremely low body weight, a fear of weight gain, and often an inability to appreciate the severity of the...
How much people's perceptions of inequality reflect the distribution of opportunities in society and how much they reflect people's own social position? We...
We associate the quote “With great power comes great responsibility” with super-heroes, such as Spiderman, but in fact, we expect leaders to abide by it too....
Generic language emphasizes broad, timeless conclusions and glosses over variability. We found that generic language was widely used in a large sample of...
