451. In art auction markets, blue and red paintings generate higher bids (Ma et al. 2022) 452. Increasing group size reduces perceptions of danger (Tedeschi et al. 2021) 453. In 2019, only 54% of Americans agree that human beings developed from earlier species of animals (Miller et al. 2021) 454. Before numerical or written marks […]
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25 interesting facts #18
426. Western sanctions on Russia in 2014 forced Putin to pay a political price, but the price was low compared to the benefits arising from the Crimea annexation (Alexseev and Hale 2020) 427. More than three-quarters of the Amazon rainforest has been losing resilience since the early 2000s (Boulton et al. 2022) 428. Men are […]
25 interesting facts #17
401. The highest emitting 100 urban areas account for 18% of the global carbon footprint (Moran et al. 2018) 402. In the United States, indigenous land density has been reduced by nearly 99% (Farrell et al. 2022) 403. Researchers funded by the alcohol industry are more likely to report alcohol protective effects (Golder and McCambridge […]
25 interesting facts #16
376. A sixth of the carbon footprint of average EU diets is due to tropical deforestation emissions (Pendrill et al. 2019) 377. In blind taste tests, there is no consistent preference for Coke or Pepsi (Van Doorn and Miloyan 2018) 378. Alphabetic writing was probably invented during the Bronze Age (Höflmayer et al. 2021) 379. […]
25 interesting facts #15
351. Preservation of historical heritage increases bird biodiversity in urban centers (Bhakti et al. 2021) 352. Torturers in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq justified their actions morally by diffusing responsibility, blaming victims, and using just-cause thinking (Einolf 2021) 353. Dogs exhibit social skills and interest in human faces by 8 weeks of age (Bray et al. 2021) […]
25 interesting facts #14
326. Obesity accelerates hair thinning (Morinaga et al. 2021) 327. U.S. policymakers did not have compelling evidence that the threat of a Communist takeover was increasing substantially in the months before the coup d’état in Iran in August 1953 (Gasiorowski 2019) 328. More than 60 percent of Danish Ministers and Permanent Secretaries end up in […]
25 interesting facts #13
301. Alcohol intake does not influence creative thinking performance (Benedek and Zöhrer 2020) 302. Ecological and environmental pressures led to a decline in dinosaur biodiversity well before the asteroid impact (Condamine et al. 2021) 303. Football players with high public status perform worse in penalty shootouts (Jordet 2009a 2009b) 304. Campaigns influence election outcomes less […]
25 interesting facts #12
276. People overestimate their own IQ by around 30 IQ points and their partner’s IQ by almost 40 IQ points (Gignac and Zajenkowski 2019) 277. Democratic satisfaction drops significantly when early elections are called by prime ministers or presidents (Morgan-Jones and Loveless 2021) 278. Smoke alarms for children are more effective if they have an […]
25 interesting facts #11
251. Democratization is associated with more deforestation (Sanford 2021) 252. Since the 1950s, there has been a moral aversion to using water as a weapon in armed conflicts (Grech-Madin 2021) 253. People with disagreeable personalities do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work (Anderson et al. 2020) 254. Overconfidence in news judgments is […]
25 interesting facts #10
226. People scoring higher in narcissism participate more in politics (Fazekas and Hatemi 2021) 227. Hitler’s speeches had a negligible impact on the Nazis’ electoral fortunes (Selb and Munzert 2018) 228. People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years (Ellis et al. 2021) 229. Introverted people listen to more punk music […]