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Job Loss Before Job Loss (opens the original)
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A new study in Social Science & Medicine found that people’s mental health often declined before they lost a job. And interestingly, this happened even amongst people who (while experiencing that decline) said they didn’t expect to be laid off.The researchers used 22 years of data from an Australian household survey, following 14,195 people and identifying 4,251 involuntary job-loss events. Participants reported their mental health on a q
ADHD Subtypes (opens the original)
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Clean Air and Cognition (opens the original)
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A recent study looking at nearly two decades of air quality and cognitive development data in New York City found that as pollution levels dropped, children’s scores on cognitive tests improved.The researchers pulled data from three groups of mothers and children who participated in studies run by the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health between 1998 and 2020. These families lived in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx, communities that have historically experienced higher-than
Stolen Food (opens the original)
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Sexual Overperception Bias (opens the original)
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A study published in 2003 found evidence that heterosexual men are more likely to mistake women’s friendliness for sexual interest than they are to miss sexual interest that’s actually there.This tendency is known as sexual overperception bias, and the study looked for it in reports of real-world interactions, rather than the photographs, videos, and hypothetical scenarios used in much of the earlier research that looked into
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