Supertest evaluates performance of engineering students in Russia, U.S.,...
A group of researchers representing four countries summed up the results of a large-scale study of the academic performance of engineering students in Russia, China, India, and the United States....
View ArticleWhy do men publish more research papers than women? Motherhood plays key role
Despite strides in family-leave offerings, and men taking a greater role in parenting, women in academia still experience about a 20% drop in productivity after having a child, while their male...
View ArticleAtheists and believers both have moral compasses, but with key differences
A new study suggests that, while atheists and theists share moral values related to protecting vulnerable individuals, atheists are less likely to endorse values that promote group cohesion and more...
View ArticleLow-wage workers at risk for automation: study
In a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface in January 2021, SFI External Professor Doyne Farmer, first author Maria del Rio-Chanona, and their colleagues at Oxford University...
View ArticleUse of pronouns may show signs of an impending breakup
Evidence of an impending breakup may exist in the small words used in everyday conversations months before either partner realizes where their relationship is heading, according to new psychology...
View ArticlePace of prehistoric human innovation could be revealed by ‘linguistic...
Multi-disciplinary researchers at The University of Manchester have helped develop a powerful physics-based tool to map the pace of language development and human innovation over thousands of years —...
View ArticleTraditional stereotypes about masculinity may help explain support for Trump
American politicians have long been expected to uphold a certain veneer: powerful, influential and never vulnerable. New Penn State research has found that these idealized forms of masculinity may also...
View Article‘Poverty line’ concept debunked by new machine learning model
Mathematicians have used machine learning to develop a new model for measuring poverty in different countries that junks old notions of a fixed ‘poverty line’. The study by academics at Aston...
View ArticleStudy finds a manly beard may help drive sales
The next time you are considering purchasing a big-ticket item, it might be worth paying attention to the salesperson’s facial hair. The beard seems to be a subtle but consistent clue used in...
View ArticleUndocumented immigrants far less likely to commit crimes in U.S. than...
Crime rates among undocumented immigrants are just a fraction of those of their U.S.-born neighbors, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of Texas arrest and conviction records. Compared to...
View ArticleSeizing military weapons does not increase violent crime nor risk police safety
More local law enforcement agencies are using military equipment, such as tear gas, armored vehicles and rubber bullets, to handle social justice protests—calling into question police militarization....
View ArticleConservatives and liberals motivated by different psychological factors, new...
Liberalism and conservatism are associated with qualitatively different psychological concerns, notably those linked to morality, shows a new study that explores how political ideology and moral values...
View ArticleNarcissists are drawn to leadership theories
The more narcissistic the leader, the higher their interest in leadership theories, according to University of Queensland research. UQ School of Psychology researchers examined the extent to which a...
View ArticleStudy: Republicans and Democrats hate the other side more than they love...
The bitter polarization between the Republican and Democratic parties in the U.S. has been on the rise since Newt Gingrich’s partisan combat against President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. But according...
View ArticleBirthrates, marriage, gender roles will change dramatically in post-pandemic...
COVID-19 and America’s response to it are likely to profoundly affect our families, work lives, relationships and gender roles for years, say 12 prominent scientists and authors who analyzed 90...
View ArticlePopularity of COVID-19 conspiracies and links to vaccine ‘hesitancy’ revealed...
A new study of beliefs and attitudes toward COVID-19 in five different countries—UK, US, Ireland, Mexico and Spain—has identified how much traction some prominent conspiracy theories have within these...
View ArticleSexual, gender minorities much likelier to be crime victims
The first study of its kind found that people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or gender non-confirming are nearly four times as likely to be victims of violent crime than those...
View ArticleResearchers trace the outlines of two cultures within science
In the world of scientific research today, there’s a revolution going on—over the last decade or so, scientists across many disciplines have been seeking to improve the workings of science and its...
View ArticleEthnic fears eroding democratic attitudes among Republicans, new research finds
Ethnocentric concerns about the growing political power and social influence of immigrants, African Americans and Latinos are undermining Republicans’ commitment to long-held democratic norms,...
View Article‘Wild West’ mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions
When historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous thesis on the US frontier in 1893, he described the “coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness” it had forged in...
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