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Social Animals Seek Power in Surprisingly Complex Ways
It’s not just physical combat—animals have a host of strategies for building clout
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The female orgasm may have evolved as a mate-selection tool, according to new research
The mate-choice hypothesis of the female orgasm posits that it “functions to select males.” The selection of good long-term mates could occur through various mechanisms. The “Mr. Right” hypothesis sug...
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How social learning amplifies moral outrage expression in online social networks
Social reinforcement and norm learning interact with social media design to amplify moral outrage in online social networks.
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Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
We show that easily accessible digital records of behavior, Facebook Likes, can be
used to automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal
attributes including: sexual orientat...
used to automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal
attributes including: sexual orientat...
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Researchers find an ongoing commitment to pandemic behaviors. They call it ‘long social distancing.’
Los Angeles schools will drop their mask mandate. In New York City, the BA.2 subvariant accounts for about a third of cases.
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Face masks make people look more attractive, study finds
Images of men wearing a blue medical face mask perceived as being the most attractive
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By mapping the meanings of the words used to communicate emotions across more than one-third of the planet’s spoken languages, researchers found in Science that there is significant variation in how e... View More
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure
Analysis of the terms used for emotions across a sample of 2474 spoken languages reveals low similarity across cultures.
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Faster internet speeds linked to lower civic engagement in UK
Study finds involvement in political parties, trade unions and volunteering falls as web speeds rise
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“From our hunter-gatherer ancestors who roamed the African Savannah, to the office workers and internet communities of the 21st century, Will Storr argues that the human need for status is ancient, un... View More
The Status Game, by Will Storr
Do you ever get a niggling feeling that other people are doing better than you? Don’t worry, we all do. In his new book The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It, Will Storr revea…