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Why looking away during a skin prick may carry a physical cost — in one pre-registered experiment the welt at its peak averaged 3.5 mm when people kept their …

Three pre-registered experiments ran a standard histamine skin prick test on the forearm at least twice per person and varied ...
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Happier people’s minds seem to return to friends before money — across the US, UK, and South Korea, their spontaneous thoughts were more closely tied to friendship, …

Across US, UK and South Korean samples, happier participants produced more friend-related word chains. In the main sample, ...
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People who assume the strangers around them are less empathetic than they really are take fewer social risks and become more isolated — and one large field study fo…

Stanford researchers found that students underestimated peers' empathy. Corrective information and social nudges increased ...
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A bad internet connection can quietly cost someone a job opportunity, a patient’s trust, or even parole — research found that tiny video-call glitches make faces and v…

Across randomized experiments and real-call archives, brief audiovisual glitches made communicators feel uncanny and lowered ...