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Do narcissists ruin relationships over time? A six-year study suggests a more complex pattern

New research from Michigan State University challenges the popular assumption that narcissists gradually damage their relationships over time.This post was originally published on this site

Rudeness may be rewarded—as a response to rudeness

If you don’t have anything nice to say, perhaps it’s OK to say it anyway—if responding to someone who has treated you or your team rudely, new Cornell research suggests. Civil responses to disrespectful behavior […]

AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users

A friend in Indonesia recently told me about a conversation he had with ChatGPT. He had typed a question in Indonesian—Bahasa Indonesia—about how to handle a difficult family dispute. The chatbot responded fluently, in perfect […]

Leadership emotions are judged differently for men and women

When leaders express negative emotions such as irritability and withdrawal, behavior is often judged differently for male and female leaders, according to new research from Griffith University published in the International Journal of Stress Management. […]

Going from serving the nation to serving a prison sentence

As Australia faces renewed strategic tension and the heightened prospect of conflict abroad, new Flinders University research warns that many veterans and their families—the very people relied upon to protect the nation—are being failed long […]

Study suggests people are losing 338 spoken words every year and have been for at least 15 years

In a society increasingly shaped by self-checkouts, GPS navigation and touchscreen ordering kiosks, new research shows face-to-face conversation may be quietly fading. A new study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests that people are […]

Book explores small talk and big silence in evangelical communities

In a new book, University of Mississippi sociologist Amy McDowell says small talk can be used as a tool to block meaningful conversation in the evangelical church, leaving some people feeling isolated in their beliefs […]

Social media enables mapping of public perceptions of redlining across the U.S.

A new study from The University of New Mexico offers a nationwide look at how Americans discuss one of the most enduring forms of housing discrimination—redlining—using more than a decade of social media data. The […]

Are relationship surveys measuring the wrong thing? How one ‘Q-factor’ shapes most answers

Commonly used self-report measures of romantic relationships may capture people’s overall appraisal of their relationship more than measuring distinct relationship facets such as communication, conflict and affection, according to a new study published in PLOS […]

Can you trust a finding? A new project maps which studies replicate

Findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program—a collaborative effort involving 865 researchers—have been published in Nature as a collection of three papers alongside a release of five additional preprints. The […]