Tag: interesting facts

651. Words for negative concepts mutate more than words for positive concepts across Indo-European languages (Jackson et al. 2022) 652. Renters are starkly underrepresented at all levels of government in the United States (Einstein et al. 2022) 653. The term jaywalking was defined in a larger struggle to redraw the boundary between street use and […]

626. You don’t need to look at the eyes of your audience to be perceived as making eye contact (Rogers et al. 2019) 627. Shaking a bottle of champagne slightly decreases the pressure inside (Vreme et al. 2015) 628. The return trip often seems shorter than the initial trip, even when the distance traveled and […]

601. Beaver fur was a luxury commodity in the Viking Age (Brandt et al. 2022) 602. People are better able to believe in a claim once thought to be false, as opposed to unbelieving something once believed to be true (Yang et al. 2022) 603. Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated […]

576. Beethoven’s assessments of his works are reliably associated with citation measures of aesthetic success (Kozbelt 2007) 577. On average, people underestimate how much other people appreciate being reached out to (Liu et al. 2022) 578. Hippocrates was the first to document that the heart is a muscle (Tsoucalas and Sgantzos 2017) 579. There is […]

551. The more people learn about terrorism, the smaller they perceive the threat of terrorism to be (Krause et al. 2022) 552. Harassment deters women and men from applying for jobs in workplaces where they are the gender minority (Folke and Rickne 2022) 553. People like music less when they think it was composed by […]