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Human men are typically more aggressive than human women, a finding supported by reams of research. But surveys of 4,136 individuals in 24 countries reveal an exception to the trend: aggression in sibling relationships. The […]

Mike Evans knew something had to change.This post was originally published on this site

A new study has revealed that the displacement of skilled workers by technology began nearly two decades ago—well before the recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence that have sparked widespread concern over jobs becoming automated in […]

Researchers explore the human tendency to look to the past to predict the future—even when people rationally know outcomes are completely random. A fair coin flip is the prototypically random-outcome event. The findings are published […]

A provocative new study has revealed how Western men participating in Muay Thai fighting tourism in Thailand use the sport to perform and affirm white masculinity—often through complex, racialized encounters with Thai fighters.This post was […]

In 2024, a young mother in Victoria ended her own life. As family violence services and Victoria Police pointed out, there were key circumstances that may have contributed to her death.This post was originally published […]

Different countries have different cultures, and social scientists have developed theories about which values are most important in differentiating the world’s cultures. Abhishek Sheetal and colleagues used the power of machine learning to identify the […]

A new study reveals that the U.K.’s gender pay gap is larger than official estimates because the data used to calculate it is not weighted properly to account for jobs in small, young, private sector […]

You’ve probably heard it before in a meeting: “Let’s touch base offline to align our bandwidth on this workflow.” Corporate jargon like this is easy to laugh at—but its negative impact in the office can […]

Many of us have experienced it at some point in our working lives: burnout. You’re exhausted, feel like your job is losing its meaning, and have little control over when and how you do your […]