Narcissism and COVID-19: new study finds narcissists are less willing to self-isolate
A new study on narcissism and COVID-19 has found narcissists are less willing to self-isolate or believe that social distancing works.
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New study: COVID-19 has led to a 53% decrease in heart surgery in the US
COVID-19 has resulted in a major decline in the amount of heart surgery in the US, as well as unexplained increase in deaths.
3D printing innovation: new technique makes materials stronger by feeding them spinach
3D printing innovation: a new technique makes it possible to "feed" inanimate objects with living matter like spinach, making them stronger.
The full moon and sleeping patterns: study shows we go to bed later and sleep less under a full moon
A full moon and sleeping patterns: a new paper finds that in the days leading up to a full moon, people go to sleep later, and sleep less.
Empty stadiums led to higher scores and fewer on-field conflicts
A new study shows that soccer scores were higher, and players had fewer on-field conflicts, when the games took place in empty stadiums.
Indirect aggression: this new study shows that mean children can turn into mean adults
A new study of "indirect aggression" - better known as meanness - found that mean children very often turn into mean adults.
New study finds kids’ eye injuries from hand sanitizer are up 7x since the pandemic began
French study finds children's eye injuries due to alcohol-based sanitizer have increased 7x since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gender inequality in education: new study finds college men speak 1.6 times more than women
A new study into gender inequality in education has found that college male students speak 1.6 times more often than female students.
Nanotech for historic building preservation: new coating lets buildings self-repair
Historic building preservation 2.0: bacterial treatments now allow cracks in old (and new) buildings to self-repair as soon as they appear.
Do therapists Google their patients? This new study finds that yes, 86% of them do
Do therapists Google their patients? A new study finds that 86% of interviewed therapists admit that they sometimes do.
Do people prefer article titles that use colons and questions? Short answer: yes
A new research paper has found that psychology students prefer article titles that have colons, questions, and long rather than short titles.
A new study says AI can predict your political orientation based on a single photo
A new study can predict with 72% accuracy whether you're a liberal or a conservative, based only on a single low-res picture of your face.
Robot theory of mind: a new study suggests that robots can learn empathy
A new study describes a robot that can predict how another robot will behave, a first step in developing so-called Theory of Mind.
When Uber and Lyft enter a new city, vehicle ownership goes up, not down
A new study has found that when ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft enter a new city, vehicle ownership increases by about 0.7%.
New study finds narcissists drink more wine than average, as they think it looks good
A new study finds narcissists drink more wine, even if they don't like wine, because they associate it with greater social attractiveness.
New study shows marriage rates in the US have seen “dramatic decline”
A new study of marriage rates in the US shows a decline of between 26% and 44% in the four regions studied.
Dream research: 62% of people report having “useful dreams”
New dream research has found that most people say their dreams are sometimes useful, sometimes even using dreams to make major life decisions.
New study finds that we have more weird dreams as the night progresses
A new study has found that the later it is at night, the more likely we are to have weird dreams and bizarre dream images.
New study finds female managers are more sympathetic to depression at work
A new study has found that female managers are much less likely than male managers to have negative attitudes toward depression at work.
Lonely people have a unique brain signature, perhaps due to so much imagined social contact
A new study has found that the brains of lonely people differ from those of people who are not lonely, in significant and detectable ways.