The claim that the nicest people end up the loneliest has spread widely this year, and the largest meta-analysis on personality and…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 2, 2026
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People who quietly wave off a hearing aid as they get older are rarely being vain, and untreated hearing loss is now ranked level with high…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 2, 2026
A 2010 study tracking 2,628 first meetings found narcissists were rated more likeable through grooming and confident body language alone…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 2, 2026
A 2018 simulation of 1,000 workers with normally distributed talent found the single most successful person across 100 runs had only…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 2, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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