Lifestyle

A study published this month in Reading Research Quarterly is challenging the long-held stereotype of the sedentary gamer. In their new paper, Dr. Fiona Scott, Dr. Liz Chesworth, Dr. Cath Bannister, Daniel Kuria, Shabana Roscoe […]

Over the past decades, the diffusion of fake news and other deceptive content on social media platforms has become a heated topic of debate. Some past studies have explored the broad impact of online misinformation, […]

Featuring gory attacks by bloodthirsty vampires, one may be quick to categorize “Sinners” as a horror movie. That classification, however, may not be fair to the artists who created it. In “Sinners,” the creators cleverly […]

A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding question: How do people learn and settle on shared social conventions, from everyday habits to workplace […]

Individuals in a morally diverse community tend to believe that the community’s norms are looser. In turn, norm violations are more accepted, and there is a reduced willingness to police transgressions, according to research by […]

Academia isn’t strong on gender equality. Women are underrepresented throughout, in the research workforce and even more so as leaders in scientific organizations. This is true for science academies (prestigious bodies within national science systems) […]

Humans are generally a cooperative bunch and most of us probably like to think of ourselves as reliable team players. Cooperation is useful for all sorts of reasons, from running a business and managing community […]

Scrolling through picture-perfect portrayals of motherhood may be doing real harm to moms, but a new study from University of Nebraska–Lincoln media scholar Ciera Kirkpatrick shows a “dose of reality” may mitigate some of the […]

The “turnpike” toll road system deserves far more credit for improving roads in eighteenth-century England and Wales, a new study argues. Analysis of nearly 100 travelers’ diaries reveals that turnpiking improved comfort and reduced danger […]

Incels—involuntary celibates—believe they have been unconditionally excluded from the dating market and are doomed to remain virgins. This has negative implications for their mood and self-esteem, as well as the women and girls they grow […]