Across three studies with more than 1,100 people, those who were ghosted underestimated how bad the ghoster felt, especially when the silence was accidental. A short reply such as "Sorry, can't talk right now" narrowed the gap.
In a placebo-controlled study of 260 people, a 1,000 mg dose of acetaminophen led participants to step onto a terrifying virtual plank sooner, cross it 22% faster and show a 12% smaller heart rate spike.
Across nine open-weight models on X, Reddit and Bluesky, a classifier still spotted AI-written replies 70 to 80 percent of the time after tuning. Emotional tone was the hardest gap to close, and making replies sound more human made them less faithful in meaning.
Pooling 175 studies of 418,528 young people from 1981 to 2019, researchers found no rise in total emotional and behavioral problems. Aggression fell, while some attention, thought and teen anxiety-depression scores rose modestly.
People picked adults' real names from four options 27% to 30% of the time versus 25% chance, but not children's, and a neural network found same-name adult faces more alike in 60% of comparisons versus 52% for children, supporting a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In a UK survey of 214 adults rating 80 adversities, 76% of the events scored above the midpoint of a trauma scale; more left-wing, older and ethnic minority participants were significantly more likely to call experiences traumatic.
Matching Chinese survey data with weather records, economists found that people whose mothers got more sunlight in the second trimester of pregnancy earn more as adults. The effect was larger for women, older workers, the rural-born and children of less-educated mothers.
Across ten studies, people seen as lacking credibility were judged more self-aware and sincere when they prefaced self-promotion with disclaimers like "I know this may seem hard to believe, but", while the same disclaimers did nothing or backfired for speakers already seen as credible.
Across 12,208 People’s Daily articles using the word "struggle", 68 to 85 percent dealt with domestic issues, and 176 Xi Jinping speeches on the US stressed cooperation, leading the authors to call China a limited, status quo power.
Following 12,211 Britons born in one week of March 1958, economists found childhood creativity predicted higher career earnings, better jobs and more education. In their working paper, one standard deviation more creativity meant about 2% higher pay.