The Frequency Illusion: Why You’ll Probably Hear the Name Baader-Meinhof Again Soon
You heard a great song for the first time the other day and suddenly you’re hearing it everywhere you go — in the car, at…
You heard a great song for the first time the other day and suddenly you’re hearing it everywhere you go — in the car, at…
Logic says that the size of a server’s tip should be based on the quality of the service provided, but research[1] shows that quality rarely…
If there’s anything we’ve learned from the coronavirus pandemic, it’s that washing our hands is one of the best ways to protect ourselves from the…
What if someone told you that they had created a personality profile just for you? Here is an extract: “You have a great need for…
Suppressing the urge to act until the time is right is a crucial, often overlooked, aspect of behavior. Just think about what might happen if…
How good are people at finding optimal solutions to complex problems? New research finds that people may not be as capable as generally assumed. Who…
The business case for diversity can undermine belonging for potential employees from underrepresented groups, research finds. Many companies have efforts to increase their diversity and…
Every retailer is interested in increasing their turnover or maximizing the sales of a particular product at some point or other, and one way of…
Picture this: you’re going to the office and you stop at your regular coffee shop on the way. You pick up your usual large mocha…
The end of the month is here again and, with it, the credit card bill. It’s higher than you thought it would be, and you…
What is it? The endowment effect describes our tendency to overvalue the goods in our endowment — our possessions — just because they are ours….
Social science researchers at the University of Tübingen develops a statistical method for separating different levels of influence. In the subjects of science and technology,…
Some people succeed at flirting more often than others. Plenty of people are obviously more attractive than the rest of us, but it also seems…
Many times throughout your life, you will find yourself asking the question, “Should I do something about this?” Almost as many times, you will find…
If you are not an extrovert or introvert, you could be an ambivert. Ambiverts fall somewhere in the middle of the personality spectrum. They’re neither…
In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our decisions that seem odd and irrational. Why do people wear…
Many of us — in the West, at least — seem to suffer from what psychologists call the “Unhealthy = Tasty Intuition”: we subconsciously assume…
Researchers from Penn, Inserm, and elsewhere observed that the number of grooming partners an individual animal had predicted the size of brain areas associated with…