From the Frontiers press release: Attractiveness isn’t just a matter of good looks, but also the right voice and scent, highlights a mini review in Frontiers in Psychology. “Recently, most reviews have focused on visual…
From the Yale University press release: Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be super-sophisticated to make a difference in people’s lives, according to a new Yale University study. Even “dumb AI” can help human groups. In…
From the University of California San Diego press release: Clocks and calendars, sports scores and stock-market tickers — our society is saturated with numbers. One of the first things we teach our children is to…
From the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UVA) press release: Over three decades of research suggest that depression increases the odds of death. However, a new research paper throws doubt on this presumed link after finding no evidence…
From the Kings College London press release: Researchers from King’s College London have found a link between loneliness and poor sleep quality in a study of more than 2,000 British young adults. Lonelier people were…
From the Baylor University press release: Consider these scenarios. You’re focused on an important project at work and your phone rings. It’s your spouse. You’ve just finished dinner with your family and you’re cleaning up…
From the Iowa State University press release: Targets of workplace bullying get plenty of advice from coworkers and family on how to respond to the situation and make it stop. While well intentioned, much of…
From the City College of New York press release: New big-data analytics by a City College of New York-led team suggests that both an individual’s economic status and how they are likely to react to…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release: In a new study presented in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have measured how deposits of the pathological protein tau spread through the brain over the course of Alzheimer’s…
From the North Carolina State University press release: A recent study by researchers at North Carolina State University and the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) finds that “moral enhancement technologies” — which are discussed as ways…