Mistrust of health care providers, fueled by painful experiences with racism, makes African American men more likely to delay routine
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Emotionally attuned managers are better at judging workgroup effectiveness: Novel experiment shows an ability to detect others’ reactions is critical
People who are naturally more attuned to others’ emotions are better able to judge how well small groups are performing,
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Is our personality affected by the way we look? (Or the way we think we look?): Research team at the University of Göttingen disproves previous assumptions
To what extent is our personality an adaptation to our appearance or even our physique? A team of scien-tists at
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Common test for mental health understanding is biased, study finds
How do clinicians rate how well a patient understands what other people are thinking and feeling? That is to say
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People link body shapes with personality traits
When we meet new people, our first impressions of their personality may depend, at least in part, on their body
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Virtual reality can help make people more compassionate compared to other media
A Stanford-developed virtual reality experience, called “Becoming Homeless,” is helping expand research on how this new immersive technology affects people’s
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Why do people share? It’s contagious, six-year study of Hadza people shows
In the modern world, people cooperate with other people including strangers all the time. We give blood, tip providers of
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People show confirmation bias even about which way dots are moving
People have a tendency to interpret new information in a way that supports their pre-existing beliefs, a phenomenon known as
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Celebrity culture likely contributed to destigmatizing out-of-wedlock childbirth
In 1992, former Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the sitcom character Murphy Brown’s decision to have a child out of
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A Liberal accent: Linguistics team documents language changes in southwest Kansas
Language changes are happening in southwest Kansas, a Kansas State University linguistics team has found. People in Liberal, Kansas, and
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