Happiness is not a warm phone, according to a new study exploring the link between adolescent life satisfaction and screen time. Teens whose eyes are habitually glued to their smartphones are markedly unhappier, said study lead author and San...
Babies often amaze their parents when they seemingly learn new skills overnight -- how to walk, for example. But their brains were probably prepping for those tasks long before their first steps occurred, according to researchers.
Researchers at Penn State...
More than 500 genes linked to intelligence have been identified in the largest study of its kind. Scientists compared variation in DNA in more than 240,000 people from around the world, to discover which genes are associated with intelligence....
Milgram experiment tests people's willingness to deliverer electric shocks to another person when encouraged by an experimenter.Image Credit:Flickr/Ape Lad
The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and the answer, according to the results of this...
A new online game puts players in the shoes of an aspiring propagandist to give the public a taste of the techniques and motivations behind the spread of disinformation—potentially "inoculating" them against the influence of so-called fake news in...
The "loudness" of our thoughts—or how we imagine saying something—influences how we judge the loudness of real, external sounds, a team of researchers from NYU Shanghai and NYU has found.
Its study, titled "Imagined Speech Influences Perceived Loudness of Sound"...
Spanking makes children's behavior problems worse.
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Children who have been spanked by their parents by age 5 show an increase in behavior problems at age 6 and age 8 relative to children who have never been...
Customers rarely post on a brand's page on their own and typically only see a fraction of a brand's Facebook content unless they are targeted with paid advertising. Image Credit: Flickr/Global Panorama
Social media managers who think that simply building...
Children as young as seven apply basic laws of physics to problem-solving, rather than learning from what has previously been rewarded, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge.
The findings of the study, based on the Aesop's fable The...
A photo of a police-style uniform worn by study participants.
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New research from a team of cognitive neuroscientists at McMaster University suggests that simply putting on a uniform, similar to one the police might wear, automatically affects how...
The number of connections reaches a maximum at the age of 25 for both genders.
Unnamed call records, gender and age information of 3 million mobile phone users from a European country were used to provide a probabilistic interpretation about...
