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Do women like sexual objectification? According to this study, it depends on who’s doing it. – Seriously, Science?

Seriously Science10 years ago02 mins

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Masters of Love – The Atlantic

Emily Esfahani Smith10 years ago029 mins

Every day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about 13,000 American couples will say “I do,” committing to a lifelong relationship that will be full of friendship, joy, and love that will carry them forward to their final days on this earth. Except, of course, it doesn’t work out that way…

Men Are Dying Because They Can’t Talk — Medium

Christos Reid10 years ago028 mins

Male suicide rates are now at their highest point in the UK since 2001. The Office for National Statistics shows that in the past thirty years, the balance between male/female suicide rates has shifted from 63% male in 1981 to 78% male in 2013. Men are killing themselves at a rate that noticeably outstrips women,…

Can staying single really help you live forever? | Fusion

Taryn Hillin10 years ago07 mins

Here’s one way to get the world’s attention: Live to become Europe’s oldest person and attribute your longevity to staying single. Well, staying single and eating raw eggs. Over the past week, the delightful story of Emma Morano, now 115 years and three months old, has gone viral. As The New York Times reported, Morano…

“Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” | MIT Admissions

Michelle G.10 years ago033 mins

There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta-analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about…

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Are You an Undercover Narcissist? — Science of Us

Melissa Dahl10 years ago018 mins

Something introverts really like to do, it seems, is read and talk about their own introversion. A commenter on a recent Science of Us post on the four kinds of introversion summed matters up quite nicely: “Gosh, introverts are just so FASCINATING! — Introverts.” This tendency, you could argue, may arise simply because introverts like spending…

19 Real Life Examples of An Extroverted Introvert So You Don’t Get Confused

DAVID KHIM10 years ago017 mins

If you’re like me, you’re an extroverted introvert. You can be outgoing, yet you desperately need your alone time. You can’t do that. You’re one or the other. No, this is how I am. And that’s how many other people are. But we’re often misunderstood. Take for instance, people often see me as completely, inarguably, extroverted…

“Injustice Collectors”: How to Understand Vester Flanagan’s Manifesto | The New Republic

Dave Cullen10 years ago024 mins

Vester Flanagan was determined to explain himself. After murdering two TV journalists (and former coworkers) during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, he faxed three different suicide notes to ABC News that were strewn with absurdities, contradictions, and baffling rationalizations. Flanagan, who was black and went by the name Bryce Williams on air, complained…

Here’s Why Men Always Think Women Are Flirting — Science of Us

Abraham Riesman10 years ago01 mins

Many straight men, as many a straight lady can tell you, have an annoying habit of mistaking basic manners — a smile, a laugh, even a simple polite reply — for flirtation. Recently, a team of Norwegian psychologists decided to investigate this romantic mystery, and they concluded that this sexual misperception — as they…

We need to engineer the racism out of apps | Fusion

Latoya Peterson10 years ago015 mins

Last year, San Francisco released BART Watch, an app for reporting crimes on the Bay Area’s main transit system. After filing a California Public Records Act request to see what people were reporting, the East Bay Express found a disturbing pattern: Of the 763 alerts sent to BART, 198 included a description of the race…

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Do women like sexual objectification? According to this study, it depends on who’s doing it. – Seriously, Science?

Masters of Love – The Atlantic

Men Are Dying Because They Can’t Talk — Medium

Can staying single really help you live forever? | Fusion

“Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” | MIT Admissions

Are You an Undercover Narcissist? — Science of Us

19 Real Life Examples of An Extroverted Introvert So You Don’t Get Confused

“Injustice Collectors”: How to Understand Vester Flanagan’s Manifesto | The New Republic

Here’s Why Men Always Think Women Are Flirting — Science of Us

We need to engineer the racism out of apps | Fusion