Platforms that offer rides to passengers, such as Uber and DiDi, thrive on socio-economic inequality. By modeling the behavior of passengers and self-employed drivers, researchers of TU Delft sim...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ridesourcing-platforms-socio-economic-inequality.html
Understanding why some people trust some scientists more than others is a key factor in solving social problems with science. But little was known about the trust levels across the diverse range ...
A study conducted at the University of Turku shows that investment by maternal grandmothers can improve the well-being of grandchildren who have faced adversities in life. The positive effects ca...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-maternal-grandmothers-buffers-children-impacts.html
Many famous singers have distinctive voices. But why do we prefer some singers to others? A team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Ma...
The emergence in the Neolithic of patrilineal social systems, in which children are affiliated with their father's lineage, may explain a spectacular decline in the genetic diversity of the Y chr...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-social-decline-genetic-diversity-chromosome.html
Psychologists from Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the University of Sussex have found that people are as hesitant to reach out to an old friend as they are to strike up a conversation with a s...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-rekindling-friendships-scary.html
Human beings are likely to adopt the thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors of those around them. Simple decisions like what local store is best to shop at to more complex ones like vaccinating a child...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-behavior-social-contagion.html
You'd be hard pressed to find any aspect of daily life that doesn't require some form of digital literacy. We need only to look back 10 years to realize how quickly things have changed.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-prisoners-years-smartphone-struggle-life.html
A geo-environmental scientist from Japan has composed a string quartet using sonified climate data. The 6-minute-long composition—titled "String Quartet No. 1 "Polar Energy Budget"—is based o...
Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-grades-students-surnames-alphabetical.html
New research led by the University of Oxford has found that perceptions of globally shared life experiences and globally shared biology can strengthen psychological bonding with humanity at large...
An analysis of building footprints in major US metropolitan areas identifies five different neighborhood types that vary in footprint size, shape, and placement, and which are statistically assoc...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-footprints-neighborhood-sociodemographic-traits.html
Cultural values may have become more different globally, but more similar regionally, over the past 40 years according to a paper published in Nature Communications. The authors suggest that over...
Algorithms were supposed to make our lives easier and fairer: help us find the best job applicants, help judges impartially assess the risks of bail and bond decisions, and ensure that health car...
Interstate gun transfers are a major contributor to gun crime, injury, and death in the United States. Guns used in crimes traced to interstate purchases move routinely between states along multi...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-iron-pipeline-interstate-guns-east.html
Johanna Nichols, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, has used her pioneering work in the field of language history to learn more about language development in North America. She...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-languages-north-america-language-groups.html
Conspiracy theorists get a bad rap in popular culture, yet research has shown that most Americans believe conspiracy theories of some sort. Why then, if most of us believe conspiracies, do we gen...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-americans-bad-conspiracy-theories-theyre.html
If you had to decide whether to receive $40 in seven days or $60 in 30 days, which would you choose? Your answer could have less to do with whether you are a patient or impatient person than with...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-focusing-immediately-benefits-people.html
Want your teen to graduate from college one day? Focus on strengthening their social networks within and beyond the family, says a new BYU study.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-money-family-community-bonds-prep.html
An international team of health workers, vision specialists and sociologists reports that giving reading glasses to people with presbyopia in developing countries can boost incomes. Presbyopia is...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-eyeglasses-workers-countries-boosts-income.html
Ever look at a member of an opposing political party and wonder, "how could they possibly hold those despicable beliefs?"
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-psychology-blame-strategies-animosity-political.html
People tend to connect with others who are like them. Alumni from the same alma mater are more likely to collaborate on a research project together, or individuals with the same political beliefs...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-characterizing-social-networks-company.html
The lyrics of English-language songs have become simpler and more repetitive over the past 40 years, according to a study published in Scientific Reports.
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-song-lyrics-simpler-repetitive.html
Emotional reactions to climate change may lead to specific policy preferences, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Teresa A. Myers of George Mason University...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-emotional-reaction-climate-impact-policies.html
In women, a low resting heart rate is associated with a slightly raised incidence of criminal offending as well as unintentional injuries, in a large all-female study published March 27 in the op...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-resting-heart-women-criminal-unintentional.html
A team of community health specialists at the Boston University School of Public Health, working with a psychiatrist from Brown University, has found evidence that suggests workers who have more ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-survey-workers-flexibility-job-mental.html
Barrow Island, located 60 kilometers off the Pilbara in Western Australia, was once a hill overlooking an expansive coast. This was the northwestern shelf of the Australian continent, now permane...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-revealed-unique-capsule-australia-coastal.html
For the first time in history, a single language dominates global scientific communication. But the actual production of knowledge continues to be a multilingual enterprise.
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-prestigious-journals-hard-scientists-dont.html
The next time you're on a walk, consider stopping by that restaurant you've never been to or the local store you keep meaning to check out. They just might be the key to a vibrant local economy, ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-exploration-key-vibrant-local-economy.html
A team of researchers with varied backgrounds has found that using X (formerly Twitter) as a means to increase citations on research papers has little impact. In their study, published on the ope...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-twitterx-impact-citations.html