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Behavioural Sciences
Here to stay: 6 tips to make your New Year’s resolutions stick
While most people break New Year’s resolutions within a few weeks, this neuroscientist has six tips to help you through the process and stick with your goals.
Behavioural Sciences
New Year, new start? This is how to keep your resolutions, according to science
Goal-setting works better if you focus on what you want instead of what you don’t want, according to a Swedish study of New Year’s resolutions by Stockholm and Linköping universities.
United States
Who do you spend the most time with? This chart shows how that may change
Who we spend time with evolves across our lifetimes. In adolescence we spend the most time with our family and friends, but as we age, we spend more time alone.
Gender Parity
How do people spend their time? This chart takes a global look
From prioritizing work and household chores, to catching up with friends and volunteering, this chart shows how people across the globe spend time.
Emerging Technologies
5 traits of organizations that use tech responsibly
New report highlights five shared principles that responsible organisations are embedding into their use of technology to combat mistrust and build industry consensus.
Behavioural Sciences
This is how humans have learned to used tools to solve problems
Researchers at MIT’s Center for Brains, Minds and Machines has discovered that humans need 3 critical capabilities to help solve physical problems.
COVID-19
Is physical distancing on the decline?
Measures tracking mobility, such as Google Community Mobility Reports, showed that adherence to keeping our distance from others began to relax, likely caused by pandemic fatigue.
Behavioural Sciences
Why empathy is good for business – and how to improve it
Empathy can be developed through training. Here's why that makes good business sense - and how managers can start to create more empathetic workplaces.
Behavioural Sciences
Why we need to rediscover the power of human touch
Touching is in decline - and not just thanks to social distancing. Here's why we need to reintegrate this fundamental aspect of being human into our lives.
Mental Health
This study of 1.6 million chess moves found the age we hit our cognitive peak
Scientists analyzed professional chess tournaments between 1890 and 2014. They found cognitive ability rises sharply until the early 20s and then plateaus.
United States
What the 2020 electorate looks like by party, race and ethnicity, age, education and religion
The U.S. electorate can change with millions of Americans turning 18, immigrants becoming naturalized citizens and longer-term shifts in the country’s racial and ethnic makeup.
Mental Health
How to stay socially connected as lockdown returns
Virtual interactions can stimulate the same body and brain responses to those from real-world interactions, write two psychologists.
Arts and Culture
Judging jargon: Infuriating, but useful. Here’s why
One study found that investors were unimpressed by investment propositions filled with unnecessary jargon. But it can sum up complex issues in fewer words.
COVID-19
How is COVID-19 affecting our day-to-day behaviour?
While COVID-19 has had massive economic and environmental impacts, the effects on us in social environments can't be underestimated, including at work, in public and with our family.
COVID-19
Women are more likely to follow COVID-19 safety measures, study shows
Women are more likely than men to follow guidelines outlined by medical experts and governments to prevent the spread of COVID-19, new research finds.