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Assessing personality using zero-shot generative AI scoring of brief open-ended text
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Investigating the causal effects of religiosity on childbearing among U.S. adolescents using a three-wave longitudinal design
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Chou, R. C. & Brown, S. A comparison of the size of families…
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Student well-being comes from care, but is caring enough? Academics reflect on three stumbling blocks
Students’ well-being in higher education has been a growing concern globally since the coronavirus pandemic, which disrupted learning and lives generally.
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Collective intelligence: How to incentivize problem solving in groups
When a crowd gets something right, like guessing how many beans are in a jar, forecasting an election, or solving a difficult scientific problem, it’s tempting to credit the sharpest individual in the room. But new research suggests focusing on…
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What ice-fishing competitions reveal about human decision-making
Whether gathering berries, hunting, or fishing, humans searching for food make decisions not only based on personal experience but also by observing others. In a large-scale field study, an international team of researchers investigated how…
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Welcome to the 'Homogenocene': How humans are making the world's wildlife dangerously samey
The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, replaced by species that are lucky enough to thrive alongside humans and travel with us easily. Some scientists have a word…
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Men are embracing beauty culture—many of them just refuse to call it that
Just weeks after the premiere of popular gay hockey romance series “Heated Rivalry,” star Hudson Williams’ extensive skincare routine has gone viral. In a now-viral video for The Cut, the 24-year-old walks viewers through his “five-step Korean…
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Living and working under the sea fills aquanauts with wonder and awe—the phenomenon is called the 'underview effect'
The feeling of awe and planetary connection experienced by astronauts observing Earth from low space orbit is known as the “overview effect,” a term coined by Frank White, the author of numerous books on space exploration and science.
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