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When Is The Best Time To Be Rude? New Study Provides Answers
The study suggests that it's okay to be rude when someone else initiates rudeness; it's seen as more acceptable to respond in kind.
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Movement And Sleep Patterns In Midlife Can Help Predict Lifespan, Finds Study
The research monitored 81 killifish from early adulthood to death using automated camera systems. These short-lived fish, with lifespans of 4-8 months, share brain complexity with humans, making them ideal for ageing studies.
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Study Reveals How Brain Cues Influence Poor Decisions And Risky Behaviour
This study helps understand why some people repeatedly make poor decisions and may be helpful in developing strategies to reduce unhealthy behaviour.
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Online Dating Is Influencing Women To Opt For Cosmetic Surgery, Reveals A Study
Since dating apps focus more on appearance-oriented elements like pictures and selfies, the pressure to alter one's physical features is increasing
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Chimpanzees Use Stone Tools like Ancient Human, Study Finds
Recent research reveals that chimpanzees select stone tools for cracking nuts in ways that may reflect techniques used by ancient human ancestors. The study observed how chimpanzees chose rocks for hammers and anvils based on their mechanical properties, such as hardness, shape, and elasticity, rather than their appearance. This mirrors the tool se...
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Chimpanzees’ Task Performance Improves With Human Audience, Study Finds
A study published in iScience found that chimpanzees performed better on challenging tasks when observed by humans. The research, conducted by Kyoto University, revealed that the presence of a larger human audience improved performance on difficult tasks, while simpler tasks saw a decline in accuracy. This suggests that the audience effect, often l...
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Chimpanzees Found To Share Humans' Style Of Conversing
On analysing the data, the researchers found that chimpanzees have a timing similar to that seen in humans - pauses of about 120 milliseconds each between a gesture and its response.
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Verbal Insults Akin to Receiving Mini Slap in the Face, Study Claims
A verbal insult can leave a person disheartened, but scientists were previously unaware of how affronts exactly impact an individual and evoke a negative emotion. Now, researchers have studied this phenomenon and concluded that a verbal insult is akin to a mini slap in the face. In their study, published in Frontiers in Communication, the researche...
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Dyslexic People, Skilled at Exploring, Helped in Evolution That Led to Human Survival: Study
A recent study has highlighted how the explorative strength in dyslexic people has an evolution link to it and has contributed to human survival. This is the first time a cross-disciplinary approach using evolutionary perspective has been taken into consideration to study dyslexia.
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Self-Navigating AI Learns to Take Shortcuts: Study
Navigation is considered a complex behavioural task, and in animals is partly controlled by a sort of onboard GPS driven by "grid cells" in the brain's hippocampus region.
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When Is The Best Time To Be Rude? New Study Provides Answers
The study suggests that it's okay to be rude when someone else initiates rudeness; it's seen as more acceptable to respond in kind.
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Movement And Sleep Patterns In Midlife Can Help Predict Lifespan, Finds Study
The research monitored 81 killifish from early adulthood to death using automated camera systems. These short-lived fish, with lifespans of 4-8 months, share brain complexity with humans, making them ideal for ageing studies.
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Study Reveals How Brain Cues Influence Poor Decisions And Risky Behaviour
This study helps understand why some people repeatedly make poor decisions and may be helpful in developing strategies to reduce unhealthy behaviour.
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Online Dating Is Influencing Women To Opt For Cosmetic Surgery, Reveals A Study
Since dating apps focus more on appearance-oriented elements like pictures and selfies, the pressure to alter one's physical features is increasing
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Chimpanzees Use Stone Tools like Ancient Human, Study Finds
Recent research reveals that chimpanzees select stone tools for cracking nuts in ways that may reflect techniques used by ancient human ancestors. The study observed how chimpanzees chose rocks for hammers and anvils based on their mechanical properties, such as hardness, shape, and elasticity, rather than their appearance. This mirrors the tool se...
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Chimpanzees’ Task Performance Improves With Human Audience, Study Finds
A study published in iScience found that chimpanzees performed better on challenging tasks when observed by humans. The research, conducted by Kyoto University, revealed that the presence of a larger human audience improved performance on difficult tasks, while simpler tasks saw a decline in accuracy. This suggests that the audience effect, often l...
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Chimpanzees Found To Share Humans' Style Of Conversing
On analysing the data, the researchers found that chimpanzees have a timing similar to that seen in humans - pauses of about 120 milliseconds each between a gesture and its response.
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Verbal Insults Akin to Receiving Mini Slap in the Face, Study Claims
A verbal insult can leave a person disheartened, but scientists were previously unaware of how affronts exactly impact an individual and evoke a negative emotion. Now, researchers have studied this phenomenon and concluded that a verbal insult is akin to a mini slap in the face. In their study, published in Frontiers in Communication, the researche...
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Dyslexic People, Skilled at Exploring, Helped in Evolution That Led to Human Survival: Study
A recent study has highlighted how the explorative strength in dyslexic people has an evolution link to it and has contributed to human survival. This is the first time a cross-disciplinary approach using evolutionary perspective has been taken into consideration to study dyslexia.
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Self-Navigating AI Learns to Take Shortcuts: Study
Navigation is considered a complex behavioural task, and in animals is partly controlled by a sort of onboard GPS driven by "grid cells" in the brain's hippocampus region.
