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The drawer of old cards from people who have died looks like an inability to throw things away. It is usually something narrower: a small private archive of the last handwriting left by a specific person, kept because the supply is now fixed.
A comedy about delusional founders is finding massive success with the delusional founders it mercilessly mocks.
A new analysis codes 46.3 percent of 194,631 cross-sectional papers as using causal language about their own results in the title or abstract. The experiment that follows is the part that lands: readers kept supplying the causal reading themselves, whatever the abstract in front of them said.
Three pre-registered experiments ran a standard histamine skin prick test on the forearm at least twice per person and varied the instruction about where to put their attention. Attending to the arm produced smaller reactions in roughly nine out of ten participants. The sample is 57 healthy adults, mostly women, average age mid-twenties, and the authors write that a reduced reaction may not universally reflect beneficial regulation.
Across US, UK and South Korean samples, happier participants produced more friend-related word chains. In the main sample, those patterns also predicted a higher price for leaving close relationships behind.
Stanford researchers found that students underestimated peers' empathy. Corrective information and social nudges increased risk-taking and shifted reported close-friend networks four months later.
Across randomized experiments and real-call archives, brief audiovisual glitches made communicators feel uncanny and lowered hiring, trust and other evaluations.
The short laugh people give at the end of a hard sentence is usually read as nerves. In many cases it is doing something else entirely: a small piece of social engineering, offered so the listener knows how to receive what has just been said.
A large randomised trial in Odisha found a modest average grade gain from collecting phones, with a substantially larger estimated benefit for lower-performing students.
Children waited four times longer after an adult kept two promises, showing that the marshmallow task blends self-regulation with a rational estimate of reliability.
The person standing by the wall at a party is often misread as restless or shy. In our reading, they are usually preserving a small exit — and that preserved option is what allowed them to arrive at all.
Australian time diaries found retired men spending less time with friends and relatives outside home while retired women spent more, but the cross-sectional design needs care.
