Over the past 20 years, online news headlines have become longer, more negative, and increasingly focused on click-through rates—regardless of journalistic quality. This is the conclusion reached by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, who analyzed about 40 million headlines from English-language news outlets across the last two decades. Their study has been published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Online headlines shift from concise to click-worthy
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Tories get ghosted: New study shows dating app users are more likely to swipe right on Reform voters
The Conservative party is in existential crisis over the electoral threat posed by Reform UK. But a recent experiment shows that not only is the new rightwing party usurping the old guard in the polls—it’s [...] -
Reform voters enjoy more success on dating apps than Conservative voters, according to new research from the University of Southampton and Harvard University.This post was originally published on this site
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In today’s digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or medical information. In addition to actively searching online, they often come across health-related information on social media or receive it through emails [...]
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In a time when civil society voices are increasingly dismissed as radical or disloyal, new research led by Ph.D. student Lee Aldar and Professor Eran Halperin at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, found that a [...]
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During the first half of the 20th century, many states passed labor laws in response to the influx of women into the modern workplace. The so-called protective labor laws enacted by U.S. states restricted women’s [...]
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A Rutgers Health study highlights that conservatives who support firearm policies are no less likely than liberals to believe their peers support those same policies.This post was originally published on this site
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Noor Bin Ladin, a right-wing influencer, stridently declares “I don’t want to eat the bugs” on a talk show hosted by a former adviser to US President Donald Trump. Laurent Duplomb, a senator from the [...]
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Researchers who took a close look at loosened concealed carry laws between 2010 and 2017 have found that “Shall Issue” regulations, which remove local authority discretion on the issuance of concealed carry gun permits, contribute [...]
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Deteriorating living and working conditions for workers in garment supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the risk of forced labor, according to a new report from the University of Sheffield.This post was originally [...]
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In an era marked by rising strategic rivalry between the United States and China, allied democracies face increasingly complex foreign policy decisions. While many of these nations depend on U.S. military protection, they also rely [...]
