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Social & Behavior

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 11-Jul-2025 00:10 ET (11-Jul-2025 04:10 GMT/UTC)

30-Apr-2025

U.K. adults with face blindness reveal the daily challenges of the condition, with a third reporting being unable to reliably recognize immediate family members and 41% unable to recognize closest friends in out-of-context or unexpected encounters

U.K. adults with face blindness reveal the daily challenges of the condition, with a third reporting being unable to reliably recognize immediate family members and 41% unable to recognize closest friends in out-of-context or unexpected encounters

Journal: PLOS One

30-Apr-2025

Tunnel vision during planning can lead us to neglect negative consequences, but this cognitive bias can be addressed by simply prompting people to explicitly consider them

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tunnel vision during planning can lead us to neglect negative consequences, but this cognitive bias can be addressed by simply prompting people to explicitly consider them

Journal: PLOS One

30-Apr-2025

2.1 kids per woman might not be enough for population survival

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Human populations need at least 2.7 children per woman – a much higher fertility rate than previously believed – to reliably avoid long-term extinction, according to a new study published April 30, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Takuya Okabe of Shizuoka University, Japan, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS One

30-Apr-2025

Mechanism by which the brain weighs positive vs. negative social experience is revealed

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Finding has implications for treating common neuropsychiatric disorders

Journal: Nature
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

30-Apr-2025

Study links childhood trauma to increased substance use and unexpected effects on heart rate and blood pressure in adolescents

University of Bath
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Childhood trauma significantly increases the likelihood of engaging in harmful alcohol consumption, smoking and illicit drug use, by the age of 18.

Journal: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

30-Apr-2025

"Men evoke more confidence", or why so few women are in leadership positions in ballet

SWPS University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Why are there so few women in leadership positions in Polish ballet? What can be done to change this? A researcher from SWPS University analysed this issue and described her conclusions in a paper published in Research in Dance Education.

Journal: Research in Dance Education

30-Apr-2025

Upcoming book "Nature’s Greatest Success" presents new paradigm of domestication

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Book Announcement

A new book by Dr. Robert Spengler tackles one of the biggest questions in biology and the social sciences: domestication – what it is, how it occurred, and the role that humans really played in developing the first crops and livestock.