Tag: society
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Are we getting less violent? No. (And we cannot)
Scientists battle over whether violence has declined over time. Contrary to a popular idea among researchers, modern states haven’t dulled people’s long-standing taste for killing each other in battle, a controversial study concludes. But living in a heavily populated society may up one’s odds of surviving a war, two anthropologists proposed. As a population grows,…
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Who died. Who played football. Who got married. Why care? [The curse of being a global citizen]
People today search for their news in the Internet. And most of Google top searches show a tendency. (1, 2, 3, 4) We care for other people. We love reading news about them. Who married. Who died. Who played in which football team. Who won the Nobel Prize. Who wrote the latest best seller book.…
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Lying. Me? Or you? Feeling unique. [How people distance themselves – or the cosmos – from their lies]
Professor Paul Taylor of Lancaster University in the UK said: "Science has long known that people's use of language changes when they lie. Our research shows that prevalent beliefs about what those changes look like are not true for all cultures”. The researchers asked participants of Black African, South Asian, White European and White British…
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Society. The forest. The river.
People with social anxiety avoid situations in which they are exposed to judgment by others. Those affected also lead a withdrawn life. Researchers have now found evidence for a gene that is believed to be linked to the illness. It encodes a serotonin transporter in the brain. Interestingly, this messenger suppresses feelings of anxiety and…
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Arranged marriages or marriages out of love? A not so easy to answer question...
- Have your married out of love? - Of course! What a silly question! Is it silly? While in our society and in any other "progressive" society the marriage out of love is the norm, there are still some societies (like India, S. Arabia etc.) where many marriages are arranged. The question is whether these…
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