Brain & Behavior
A 1979 study found married couples estimating their share of household chores gave answers that summed to well over 100 percent, because…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 2, 2026
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
A 2001 Psychological Review paper found that self-worth tied to other people's approval, not the overall amount of self-worth a person has…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 2, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The marshmallow test, redone with ten times as many children, found that a four-year-old's willpower mostly stopped predicting teenage…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 2, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The viral 2010 power posing study claimed two minutes of an expansive stance changes testosterone and cortisol, but a 2015 replication with…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 2, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 1999 study found that people whose posture and mannerisms were subtly mirrored during a conversation rated their partner as more likable…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 2, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In a 2017 study, 307 people rated a fictional Facebook user as wealthier and higher status after reading busy, overworked posts than after…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 2, 2026
Life
There is no such thing as a tree in the biological sense
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 1, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Pacific is the largest ocean on Earth, bigger than all the continents combined, and it is also the one that is slowly closing, consumed…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 1, 2026
Brain & Behavior
We argue about what true intelligence really is, but the most replicated finding in a century of research is oddly simple
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 1, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2022 theory paper describes women's exhaustion as a mental load with three traits, invisible, boundaryless, and enduring, that standard…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 1, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2015 study of 953 adults found people who already preferred bitter tastes like black coffee scored higher on psychopathy and sadism…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 1, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In a 2025 study of 2,203 Chinese university students, higher scores on a new people-pleasing scale tracked with more neuroticism and lower…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 1, 2026