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What Your Face Looks Like Could Be a Matter of Life and Death
The Wall Street Journal: Criminal defendants who have faces that look less trustworthy are more likely to receive harsher sentences, according to a new study. Psychology researchers at the University of Toronto investigating the relationship
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Self-proclaimed ‘experts’ more likely to fall for made-up facts, study finds
The Washington Post: If you consider yourself an expert in something or another, you might want to stop pretending you understand things you’ve never heard of. In a new study, researchers found that self-proclaimed “experts”
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Having Wealthy Neighbors May Skew Beliefs About Overall Wealth Distribution
Wealthy people may be likely to oppose redistribution of wealth because they have biased information about how wealthy most people actually are, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association
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Know-It-Alls More Likely To Accept Falsehoods as Fact, Study Shows
TIME: People who consider themselves experts in a given topic are more likely to claim knowledge of made-up “facts” about that topic, a new study shows. Researchers conducted a series of experiments to assess how
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Friend Fail: When Your Partner Dislikes Your Pals
The Wall Street Journal: About a year after she started to date her boyfriend, Shanon Leespotted a potential deal breaker: his friends. She saw how much his pals, men and women, drank and cursed, texted
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In Court, Your Face Could Determine Your Fate
NPR: Your face has a profound effect on the people around you. Its expression can prompt assumptions about how kind, mean or trustworthy you are. And for some people, a study finds, it could help