How people react to uncertainty has far-reaching socio-political consequences. If uncertainty is perceived as a threat, people tend to turn to political extremes.  

Psychologists from ETH Zurich have now investigated whether people can also perceive uncertainty as an opportunity. They found that people who do so were more positive about diversity, more supportive of social change and less likely to vote for the right-wing populist party AfD. 

Changing the way in which people view uncertainty could strengthen democratic resilience. 

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes around 21 million years ago, and that Neanderthals likely engaged in kissing too. The findings have been published today (19 November) in Evolution and Human Behavior.