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Pinchak et al. offer suggestive evidence of crime deterrent benefits of local street monitoring and dog presence and call attention to the contribution of pets to other facets of neighborhood social organization. Image credit: Marta Reinartz.

Study: Higher Neighborhood-Level Concentration of Households with Dogs Means Less Crime

Jul 5, 2022 by News Staff

In a study published in the journal Social Forces, scientists from the Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin found that neighborhoods...

Westlake et al revealed strong and systematic variation in altruistic tendencies across urban suburbs of different socio-economic characteristics; this variance appears to be conditioned by the education and occupation level of residents in the suburb, and was not consistently influenced by economic resources or crime rate. Image credit: Sasin Tipchai.

Study Provides New Insight into Human Altruistic Behavior

Dec 14, 2019 by Enrico de Lazaro

Altruism blossoms in neighborhoods populated with highly educated people working in high-status jobs, according to new research. Westlake et al revealed...

Park et al revealed large-scale associations between industries and people across the globe: (a) the large-scale organization of geo-industrial clusters in the labor flow network; each circle represents a geo-industrial cluster, with size proportional to its number of employees; the colors represent the highest-level community membership; (b-e) two examples of hierarchical sub-structures in the labor flow network are illustrated; each circle represents a firm and the bar charts show the reduction in industry and region entropy within the cluster as a proportion of the parent cluster’s entropy: (b, c) the organization of banking and financial geo-industrial clusters are affected more by industries than geography; (d, e) the geo-industrial clusters in U.S. Midwest and South region form strong geographical clusters. Image credit: Park et al, doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11380-w.

Scientists Create Global Map of Labor Flow

Aug 5, 2019 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Indiana University and the professional network LinkedIn has created the first global map of labor flow. Park et al revealed...

In virtually all countries citizens were more likely to return wallets that contained more money. Image credit: Steve Buissinne.

Study: People More Likely to Return Lost Wallet with More Money

Jun 28, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from the United States and Switzerland turned 17,303 ‘lost’ wallets containing varying amounts of money into public...

Photo-a-day practice has complex benefits for improving wellbeing. Image credit: SplitShire.

Photo-A-Day: Daily Digital Practice Improves Wellbeing

May 3, 2018 by News Staff

Taking a photo each day and posting it online has multiple benefits for wellbeing, according to a study carried out by Dr. Liz Brewster of Lancaster University...

Parkinson et al show evidence for neural homophily -- neural responses when viewing audiovisual movies are exceptionally similar among friends, and that similarity decreases with increasing distance in a real-world social network. Image credit: Parkinson et al, doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02722-7.

On the Same Wavelength: New Study Illustrates How Similar Neural Responses Predict Friendship

Feb 2, 2018 by News Staff

According to a study published in the January 30 issue of the journal Nature Communications, we are exceptionally similar to our friends in how we perceive...

A study by Kamp Dush et al is the first known to uncover exactly what men were doing while women performed additional minutes of housework and childcare. Image credit: Rudy Anderson.

Study: Fathers are Often Having Fun While Mothers Perform Housework

Oct 19, 2017 by News Staff

An Ohio State University-led study is the first to show how couples spend time minute-by-minute. Published in the journal Sex Roles, the findings will...

Modig et al found that people who had at least one child tended to live longer.

Being Parent Could Add Extra Years to Your Life

Mar 14, 2017 by News Staff

Parenthood is associated with a longer life than childlessness, particularly in older age, according to a study led by Karolinska Institute researcher...

Earth as seen on July 6, 2015 from a distance of one million miles by NASA’s EPIC camera on the DSCOVR satellite. Image credit: NOAA / NASA / U.S. Air Force.

Earth’s Population Will Reach 11 Billion by 2100, United Nations Experts Say

Aug 11, 2015 by News Staff

The world’s population, now 7.3 billion, is expected to reach the 11 billion mark by 2100, according to revised population projections released yesterday...

The Maya city of Palenque in modern-day Mexico. Image credit: Peter Andersen / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ancient Human Settlements Grew Same Way as Modern Cities Do, Scientists Say

Feb 21, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Science Advances strengthens the view that human settlements of all times and places function in the same way by manifesting...

The top panel shows total world population projected to 2100; dotted lines are the range or error using the older scenario method, while shaded regions are the uncertainties using statistical methods; the darker shading is the 80 % confidence bars, and the lighter shading shows the 95 % confidence bars; at the bottom are the population projections for each continent. Image credit: Adrian Raftery / University of Washington.

Earth’s Population Could Reach 12.3 Billion by 2100, Scientists Say

Sep 19, 2014 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Dr John Wilmoth of the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs announced yesterday in the journal Science that, according...

The new study indicates that the reason why a person may choose to show the amount they have donated but conceal their identity is because it may act as a signal informing others looking to donate of the charity’s quality and worthiness

Scientists Explain why People Make Large Donations Anonymously

May 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Center for Market and Public Organization who studied why people choose to make large donations to charity...

Google Trends Data Show Germany is Most Forward-Looking Country

Feb 1, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using Google logs, an international team of scientists has found that in 2012 Germans searched for the future on the Internet more than any other nation. The...

Flirting More Effective on Sunny Days, Study Shows

Jan 29, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study, conducted by Prof Nicolas Guéguen of the University of South Brittany, France, if you are serious about your flirting and hope...

Study Reveals What Social Networks May Know About Non-Members

May 2, 2012 by News Staff

A team of German scientists has revealed what online social networks on the internet may know about persons who are friends of members, but have no user...

Researchers Link Google Search Behavior to GDP

Apr 5, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers analyzing Google search queries has found that Internet users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic...

Facebook and Yahoo to Test Sociological Theory

Aug 18, 2011 by News Staff

Facebook and Yahoo have joined forces to test a long-standing theory in sociology that everyone on Earth is connected together in a giant social network. Yahoo’s...