How Women Perceive Abusive Partners

How Women Perceive Abusive Partners

Researchers look at why women don't just leave

Copying Mistakes Is an Engine for Innovation

Copying Mistakes Is an Engine for Innovation

Study shows the link between the two

New Theory on Why We Are Nice to Strangers

New Theory on Why We Are Nice to Strangers

It contradicts previous studies

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 12th, 2009
Monkeys Sense Injustice as Well

Monkeys Sense Injustice as Well

They react to it as humans do

  • Security
  • By Lucian Constantin
  • November 11th, 2009
A More 'Human' Koobface, a More Dangerous Facebook

A More 'Human' Koobface, a More Dangerous Facebook

Notorious worm imitates normal user behavior

How You Are Affected by Others' Bad Decisions

How You Are Affected by Others' Bad Decisions

Moods and states of mind are contagious

  • Sci Pry
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • October 14th, 2009
Constructing Machines That Act like Humans

Constructing Machines That Act like Humans

At least in a virtual environment

People Lie Less than Expected

People Lie Less than Expected

According to a strict definition of the term

How Overconfidence Evolved

How Overconfidence Evolved

The behavior is in fact detrimental

Modern Society Affects Our Sharing Habits

Modern Society Affects Our Sharing Habits

Sharing is what allowed humans to survive

Experts to Simulate the Future of Mankind

Experts to Simulate the Future of Mankind

Airline flights and economic crises could be predicted

Explaining Human 'Attraction' to Distorted Faces

Explaining Human 'Attraction' to Distorted Faces

And also why we can't sometimes stop staring

Humor-Pattern Recognition Theory Gets Clarifications

Humor-Pattern Recognition Theory Gets Clarifications

It had too many misconceptions and assumptions, the author says

How to Predict a Happy Marriage

How to Predict a Happy Marriage

Every couple wants to know

Gaze-Following Explained

Gaze-Following Explained

The behavior is older than humans

  • Sci Pry
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • February 2nd, 2009
Scrapped Safe Yields $128,000 in Spoils

Scrapped Safe Yields $128,000 in Spoils

The workers who found the money have given it back

False Memories Taint Eyewitnesses' Accounts

False Memories Taint Eyewitnesses' Accounts

They can be influenced by third-party opinions

 
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