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All of us value some friends more than others, and tend to value partners who display signs of commitment to their relationships. This study revealed that this...
Even when presented with the same information, liberals and conservatives tend to interpret political information differently. By measuring brain activity...
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...
Following a series of high-profile cases of police harassment and violence, police reform has become a growing national concern in the U.S. We evaluate one...
Psychologists, philosophers, and engineers have long known that the way we think about problems affects the way we solve them. Our recent paper proposes and...
We used international survey data from 500,000 students to show that genders attribute differently their failure to a lack of talent and argued that these...
The diversity of the US population is not well represented in its scientific workforce. In our research, we use large scale bibliometric databases to...
People usually want to be moral, but they sometimes break taboos for earnings. In such a moral dilemma, selective forgetting of bad memories helps us maintain...
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...
Using a sample of over 11 million people from Sweden, this study found that adults with ADHD are more likely to struggle financially and to die by suicide....
Many today are concerned that universities “indoctrinate” students to have certain ideological beliefs. Despite this major claim, we find no evidence of broad...
Among other methods, governments use highway message signs to encourage responsible driving. We find that displaying year-to-day roadside fatality counts leads...
Conspiracy beliefs are a major driver of local opposition to wind farms. The good news: Providing information in favor of wind farms can help overcome...
When you feel sleepy, you may prefer going to bed over chatting with friends. Indeed, our study shows that sleepiness is linked to social activity as well as...
Generic language emphasizes broad, timeless conclusions and glosses over variability. We found that generic language was widely used in a large sample of...
Does screen time precede developmental delays, or do children showing delays in development receive more screen time to manage challenging behaviors? We have...
Despite unprecedented access to multiple sources of information, polarization in political opinions is on the rise. Why does the same news footage trigger...
Would you be happier without antibiotics, functional plumbing, and a car? What if you had never heard about these things in the first place? Might you be...
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....
Men and women are each about half the population. Recent studies revealed that according to billions of words on the internet, people think of a “human” more...
Students from minoritized groups enter college with interest in STEM but leave these majors at high rates, largely due to inequities in STEM classes. Active...
Have you ever noticed that your thoughts are sometimes focused on the task-at-hand, while other times, your mind wanders from topic to topic? Our new study...
Perhaps the most familiar gesture in ordinary communication is index-finger pointing. It exists in every culture, and yet we do not know where it originates....
