The Batman effect: A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train

People’s political views shape how they respond to companies that tightly control their frontline staff

Autistic adults are more likely to report suicide-related behaviours and psychological distress irrespective of previous traumatic experiences, according to new research.

New research shows that after the wedding, beauty-for-status (the “trophy wife” trope) becomes a two-way street, with both husbands and wives adjusting their looks as income power shifts

Singlehood stigma and fear of being alone linked to more flexible dating standards: People become more willing to date someone possessing what they consider a dealbreaker trait when faced with alternative of staying alone for years

Having a pet present during interactions with romantic partners or friends may increase visible signs of positive emotion, such as smiling and laughing

Study shows that providing people with information about the universal benefits of public goods significantly increases support for higher taxation

Lonely children have an increased risk of dementia and cognitive decline in adulthood

See Figure 1: When a major Nature journal approves AI slop, it raises real questions about peer review, Nature’s quality control, and whether scientific institutions can police themselves.

Using computer vision techniques on sound pictures of short speech fragments (“spectrograms”), researchers trained a neural network on voice recordings from people with and without schizophrenia