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Nobody in the study was tickled. Volunteers coloured two body silhouettes on screen, and the pattern they drew came out nearly the same in all three languages. Of the five explanations on offer since Aristotle, four came back empty when tested one at a time, and when all five were tested together across eleven body areas, two of them pointed the opposite way.
Six researchers ran 579 US adults, 558 of them after exclusions, through a mock Facebook argument about climate education in schools. Guessing at the other side's arguments and calling them valid outperformed praising their intentions on four relational measures, by roughly two to one on point estimates the paper never tests against each other; a fifth did not survive correction. Opinions did move. They just did not measurably move any further in either treatment group than in the control.
A six-month BT study linked happier weeks to higher sales through conversion rather than extra hours, but its 12% estimate came from a weather-and-windows natural experiment.
A 40-year computer model shows how talent can improve average outcomes while rare, compounding runs of luck still decide who reaches the very top.
Gloria Mark’s field studies chart a fall from minutes to seconds on a single screen, but the result measures digital switching rather than a biological limit on thought.
The famous 66-day result came from a small modelled group and measured 95 per cent of a projected automaticity plateau, not a universal moment when a habit switches on.
KPMG’s hypothetical job profiles suggest close workplace relationships can outweigh a large salary gap, but the result is not evidence that friendship can replace fair pay.
A majority of young adults across eight countries report feeling derailed by their own lives, suggesting this quiet crisis is far more universal than anyone assumes.
The foggy feeling new mothers report isn't cognitive decline—it's a fundamental rewiring of the brain's social-perception circuits, changes so specific and persistent that neuroscientists can now see them on scans years later.
Leisure-guilt, contingent-self-worth and conditional-regard research suggests that for some people, productivity becomes evidence of acceptability rather than simply a way to complete work.
A comparison of public beliefs with eight longitudinal panels found that average Big Five personality change was repeatedly underestimated, although the headline's 90% requires care.
The Illinois Valedictorian Project found durable academic and professional success, but class rank was a stronger signal of mastering systems than of who would later reinvent them.
