Everyone has been there. You get invited to something that you absolutely do not want to attend – a holiday party, a family cookout, an expensive...
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Elite bridge player Margherita Chavarria from Italy. Francesca Canali from the World Bridge Federation, CC BY-SA Why do men strongly outperform women at “mindsports” such...
With Taylor Swift pulling in over half-a-million audience members on her Australian tour, we’ve been thinking a lot about fans. In this series, our academics dive...
Many people believe at least one conspiracy theory. And that isn’t necessarily a bad thing – conspiracies do happen. To take just one example, the CIA...
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The United States is in the grips of a loneliness epidemic: Since 2018, about half the population has reported that it has experienced loneliness. Loneliness...