Study: 65% of teenagers almost never part with their smartphones
96% of teenagers use smartphones, 93% own them, and 65% almost never part with them, according to the study 'Mobile devices in learning and teaching'. Students use smartphones for entertainment, to develop interests, for homework and during classes.
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Psychologist: Language you use can influence your decisions
A decision made based on data presented in a learned foreign language may be different than if you made it based on data in your native language. Language changes the intensity of felt emotions, and it affects the ability to analyse problems and choose solutions, according to research by Rafał Muda, PhD.
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Why do people spread disinformation? Researchers analyse importance of motivations related to need for power
People strongly driven by the need for power are more likely to share posts on social media, including disinformation. Power itself, like the need to gain prestige and recognition, is not associated with the frequency of spreading false information, according to research involving Professor Małgorzata Kossowska from the Jagiellonian University.
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Study: Compensations for passengers reduce average EU flight delays
Thanks to the introduction of passenger compensation, average flight delays in the EU have been reduced by almost 5 minutes. This is only seemingly little - in the entire EU over a year, this means a time saving equal to about ten thousand years, according to analyses by a researcher from the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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Analysis/ Copy and paste from ChatGPT in top-shelf scientific publications
Certain awkward phrases characteristic of ChatGPT appear in peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, according to the analysis conducted by Artur Strzelecki, PhD, a professor at the University of Economics in Katowice. According to the researcher, this may undermine trust in the process of preparing scientific content.
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Where did love come from? Psychologists: It supports commitment, like rental agreement
Where did romantic love come from among people around the world, and why was it promoted in human evolution? It was needed to guarantee a lasting relationship, support commitment between partners, give a sense of security, and thus - increase the number of their children. Conclusions from a survey in 90 countries confirm this.
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Vodka and morality: Alcohol reduces inhibitions against harming others and 'tarnishing sacred things'
One strong drink will not change your views on what is right and what is wrong, but it will blur your perception of values such as care and purity, according to Polish research. To verify this, psychologists offered alcohol to participants and checked their approach to ethical issues.
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Experts: Young people particularly vulnerable to disinformation
Most young people get information and knowledge about the world from the Internet and social media, where it is more difficult to verify information, hence they are particularly vulnerable to disinformation and fake news, emphasise experts from the Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
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Overcome phobia in virtual reality? It works, research shows
Fear of spiders, open spaces, heights? Research shows that virtual reality can actually be an effective tool to treat with phobias, argue researchers from SWPS University, Gdańsk University of Technology and Jagiellonian University.
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Laypeople have chills when listening to Penderecki as often as experts do
Laypeople have chills as often as experts do when listening to Krzysztof Penderecki's Seven Gates of Jerusalem. Although experts analysed fragments of the piece more, its emotional reception did not differ depending on the level of preparation of the audience, the Jagiellonian University experiment shows.
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