sociology
When it comes to vetting people for friendship, body odor seems to be a decisive factor.
Explore the key highlights from the UN’s latest release of its world population estimates.
When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas.
Ideas often taken for granted in the United States and Europe about what it means to be a person are, quite simply, not shared with other cultures.
Is there such a thing as a heroic personality type?
The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of “otherness.” We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.
In a world where we assume people tell the truth, liars prosper. To stop them from exploiting others, here are three rules to catch a liar.
In the early 1900s, some Americans feared that teddy bears would not instill maternal instincts in girls, thereby causing “race suicide.”
One might think that people who started poor and became rich might be more sensitive to the plights of the poor. Not so, suggests a new study.
Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.
Symbolic gestures often speak to our psyche in ways no rational action could ever speak to our intellect.
A philosopher unpacks the paradox in using the word “evil.”
Can we stop mass shootings? The first step is collecting data, and these authors have done just that.
This world map shows how the rest of the world LOLs. In France, you MDR; in China, you 23333.
Does your father say “I love you,” or express it in another way?
The sonnenrad is a Heathen symbol composed of 12 repeated runes.
Prison is an unreliable method of punishment. Let’s do better.
Polarization or misunderstanding?
The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.
We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life’s biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?
Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.
To the ancient Greeks, exotic animals were proof of mythological creatures. To the ancient Romans, they were oddities and adversaries.
And debate over it started soon after.
Were Hitler’s SS henchmen willing executioners fueled by racial propaganda or mindless servants vying for promotions?
The Spanish language has the ability to minimize and exaggerate by the simple addition of a suffix.
It doesn’t matter how ridiculous a lie is. As long as it is repeated often enough, some people will believe it.
