Consumers who perceive the benefits of large sums of money promised in mass marketing scams (MMS) are more likely to
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Tipping point for large-scale social change
When organizations turn a blind eye to sexual harassment in the workplace, how many people need to take a stand
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Study tracks Title IX use across US colleges and universities
Title IX — the U.S. civil rights law passed in 1972 that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs
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New moms’ voices get lower after pregnancy: Voice drops by one piano note, and lasts for a year
The pitch of new mothers’ voices temporarily drops after they have had their first baby, according to a new longitudinal
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People make different moral choices in imagined versus real-life situations
Researchers often use hypothetical scenarios to understand how people grapple with moral quandaries, but experimental results suggest that these scenarios
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Not quite a ‘double bind’ for minority women in science: Study measures disadvantage based on race, gender and ethnicity
Many studies have shown that both minority and women scientists face disadvantages in reaching the highest levels of their careers.
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Optimal age of puppy cuteness optimized
The popular meme proclaiming that all dogs are puppies assumes that humans’ adoration of canines is not conditional on their
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Eyes in the back of the head
Spatial representations of surroundings, including those outside the visual field, are crucial for guiding movement in a three-dimensional world. The
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Why people become more prone to distraction with age: A specific brain network, the locus coeruleus, that controls our ability to focus while under stress appears to weaken as we age, interfering with our ability to focus
Older adults appear more easily distracted by irrelevant information than younger people when they experience stress or powerful emotions —
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If you believe it, it’s truer: People reflexively accept information as accurate if it aligns with their worldview
A new study illuminates how rapid, involuntary mental processes kick in when responding to statements that correspond with an already
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