When asked what traits constitute a good leader, you may be tempted to list traditional qualities such as rationality, cool-headedness, and overall, an ability to detach oneself from one's emotions. However, research has ...
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2023
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When we point at an object, the toddler focuses on the object, while the dog usually takes the gesture as a directional cue.
Plants & Animals
Nov 18, 2023
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What influences the choices we make, and what role does the behavior of others have on these choices? These questions underlie many aspects of human behavior, including the products we buy, fashion trends, and even the breed ...
Mathematics
Nov 16, 2023
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One of the great unsolved mysteries of cosmology is known as the Hubble tension. It stems from our inability to pin down the precise rate of cosmic expansion. There are several ways to calculate this expansion, from observing ...
Astronomy
Nov 13, 2023
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Students who feel they have been victimized because of social characteristics such as their ethnicity or their sexuality are at additional risk of trauma, a new national US study has revealed.
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2023
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During the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, the telecommunications company Orange ran a powerful TV ad. It depicts the graceful agility and dramatic goal-scoring shots from French national players such as Antoine Griezmann, Kylian ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2023
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Want to get a slight edge during a coin toss? Check out which side is facing upwards before the coin is flipped –- then call that same side.
Mathematics
Oct 22, 2023
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A two-part training designed to help police officers recognize their implicit bias, revealed some behavior improvement and lowered citizen discrimination complaints in a controlled study. While a small study involving one ...
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2023
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A large team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across Europe, has found evidence backing up work by Persi Diaconis in 2007 in which he suggested tossed coins are more likely to land on the same side they ...
Online technology is fundamentally reshaping employee evaluations. In the last decade or so, companies such as IBM, Amazon, and General Electric have adopted performance feedback apps that allow employees to "review" one ...
Social Sciences
Sep 29, 2023
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