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Imagine waking up in a foreign country where you do not speak the language and have no understanding of social etiquette, much less the norms or expectations for engaging with others. This would surely be […]

Close relationships, work teams and local communities… cooperation is necessary for their proper functioning. It turns out that niceness can be conducive to it, as it strengthens bonds and the sense of satisfaction with teamwork, […]

A program that taught basic financial concepts through two-minute stories improved adults’ financial knowledge, showing promise as an easy-to-implement real-world tool.This post was originally published on this site

Complaint lines such as New York City’s 311 let people report quality-of-life problems in their building or neighborhood, from excessive noise to illegal parking. But resident-generated data typically suffers from reporting bias, with some neighborhoods […]

The values of vegetarians diverge sharply from those of meat-eaters, revealing a profile less about kindness and more about individuality, according to psychologist John B. Nezlek at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities and […]

What started as free tickets to see a flamenco fusion band in Spain turned into an unexpected research opportunity for a team of researchers at Penn State, who discovered a unique example of the power […]

A new study offers the first large-scale, data-driven examination of tech workers’ values across Europe. The findings reveal that while developers tend to be highly individualistic, open to change, and driven by universalist ideals, non-developers […]

American children whose parents divorce when they are 5 or younger have marked disadvantages over the course of life, including reduced earnings and an increased likelihood of experiencing a teen pregnancy, incarceration and early death, […]