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Examining the ties between language and emotion
A paper by a psychologist at the University of Kansas examines how language shapes our emotional experience of the world.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.
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Shared memories, different emotions: How Polish families talk about their migration to Germany
Does the decision to leave the country unite or divide migrant families? A study by Polish researchers shows how parents and their adult children jointly build narratives about their lives in Germany—sometimes harmoniously, sometimes with […]
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How Zelda and Studio Ghibli inspire happiness and purpose
A new study published in JMIR Serious Games reveals that playing the open-world video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and watching Studio Ghibli films can significantly improve young people’s overall happiness […]
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Freud would have called AI a ‘narcissistic insult’ to humanity—here’s how we might overcome it
In 1917, Sigmund Freud described three “narcissistic insults” that had been caused by science. These were moments of scientific breakthrough that showed humans that we are not as special as we once believed.This article is […]
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Prehistoric female miners identified using multidisciplinary approach
Almost three decades ago, the chert mining area in Krumlov Forest was discovered. Since then, much has been written about the mining activity that took place here. While chert mining occurred here from as early […]
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Is mineral water ‘natural’ if it’s filtered? The debate gripping France today has raged since the 18th-century
A year ago, French newspaper Le Monde and Radio France broke a scandal in big water—Perrier was filtering its product. The filtering began due to worries about water contamination linked to climate change and pollution […]
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Blending direct and indirect reciprocity: Researchers create tolerance-based cooperation framework
A research team led by Professor Hitoshi Yamamoto (Rissho University, Japan) has developed a new model that integrates direct and indirect reciprocity, the two core mechanisms underpinning human cooperation. Unlike previous models that treat these […]
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Beyond the binary: Nuanced categories of good, neutral and bad support lasting human cooperation
A research team led by Hitoshi Yamamoto has unveiled new insights into how humans build and update reputations in cooperative social interactions. Human societies have achieved remarkable levels of cooperation, facilitated mainly by mechanisms of […]
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‘Australiana’ images made by AI are racist and full of tired cliches, researchers say
Big tech company hype sells generative artificial intelligence (AI) as intelligent, creative, desirable, inevitable, and about to radically reshape the future in many ways.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.
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Analysis calls for community-led approaches in social science research
Much previous work in the social sciences has involved researchers—often but not always from the Global North—collecting data from rural communities in the Global South on a wide range of topics from public health to […]