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- Do success stories cause false beliefs about success? https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/do-success-stories-cause-false-beliefs-about-success 249 comments
- Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-Scale Social Change https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-tipping-point-large-scale-social-change 30 comments
- Brain Signals Can Predict How Often a News Article Is Shared Online https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/brain-signals-can-predict-how-often-news-article-shared-online 3 comments science
- While other democracies have recognized the value of public media systems, America is a major outlier. New study finds countries with well-funded public media have healthier democracies. Researchers show investment in US public media is an investment in the future of journalism and democracy alike. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/public-media-can-improve-our-flawed-democracy 548 comments science
- New research has worrying implications for information ecosystem surrounding topics such as politics, science, and health, where technically correct but misleadingly presented data can be widely persuasive. It is possible to lead individuals to arrive at unwarranted conclusions using manipulation. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/do-success-stories-cause-false-beliefs-about-success 72 comments science
- Most smokers start early—90% of adult smokers first tried tobacco by age 18. New study shows emphasizing immediate negative outcomes of smoking and vaping—such as disapproval of friends or being a turnoff to others—can be a more successful approach in preventing and reducing tobacco and nicotine use https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/emphasizing-short-term-effects-can-help-prevent-and-reduce-youth-smoking 322 comments science
- Doctors tend to think differently in networks than they do when they are alone. New study offers striking evidence that network science can be used to remove race and gender bias in clinical settings. Furthermore, the network approach to bias-reduction improved the quality of care for everyone. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/clinician-peer-networks-remove-race-and-gender-bias 20 comments science
- Study: Religious leaders, if persuaded of benefits of policies that aid people with a substance use disorder, could influence the general population’s opinion toward those measures. Religious leaders could be mobilized to support protective and efficacious drug policy to curb the opioid epidemic. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/rural-america-religious-attendance-and-norms-reduce-compassion-people-who-use-opioids 5 comments science
- A new study found that Americans dramatically overestimate the number of migrants affiliated with gangs and children being trafficked, and that this overestimation contributes to dehumanization of migrants, to lack of empathy for their suffering, and to individuals’ views on immigration policy. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/correcting-misperceptions-about-and-increasing-empathy-migrants 1864 comments science
- Why Independent Cultures Think Alike When It Comes to Categories. In an experiment in which people were asked to categorize unfamiliar shapes, individuals and small groups created many different unique categorization systems while large groups created systems that were nearly identical. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/why-independent-cultures-think-alike-its-not-in-the-brain 5 comments science
- The rise of comedy-news programs, like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert or John Oliver, may actually help inform the public. A new neuroimaging study using fMRI suggests that humor might make news and politics more socially relevant, and therefore motivate people to remember it and share it. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/new-study-finds-delivering-news-humor-makes-young-adults-more-likely-remember-and?t=au 3314 comments science
- New research found that young people were more likely to remember information about politics and government policy when it was conveyed in a humorous rather than non-humorous manner. They were also more willing to share the information online. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/new-study-finds-delivering-news-humor-makes-young-adults-more-likely-remember-and 13 comments science
- Pictorial Warning Messages on Cigarette Packs Are Most Effective When Diseased Body Parts and Testimonials Are Included https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/pictorial-warning-messages-cigarette-packs-are-most-effective-when-diseased-body 12 comments science
- People who don't read the news regularly are better at predicting which news articles will go viral, suggests a new brain imaging study. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/people-who-dont-read-news-are-better-predicting-which-articles-will-go-viral-study 3 comments science
- October floor was 0.05, December 0.07, April 0.09, Mai 0.12; Tipping Point will be 0.25 https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-tipping-point-large-scale-social-change 14 comments btc
- A new study finds that when 25 percent of people in a group adopt a new social norm, it creates a tipping point where the entire group follows suit. This shows the direct causal effect of the size of a committed minority on its capacity to create social change https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-tipping-point-large-scale-social-change 1333 comments science
- Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change: When 25% of people in a group adopt a new social norm, it creates a tipping point where the entire group follows suit. This shows the direct causal effect of the size of a committed minority on its capacity to create social change. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-tipping-point-large-scale-social-change 16 comments cogsci
- A recent study found that traditionally high-status Americans felt their status in America and the world was threatened by America's growing racial diversity. As a result, these groups increased their support in 2016 for the candidate who most emphasized reestablishing status hierarchies of the past https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/fear-losing-status-not-economic-hardship-drove-voters-2016-presidential-election 1122 comments science
- How our brains respond to feeling left out. A study looked at the brain’s response to social exclusion under fMRI, particularly in the mentalizing system, which includes separate regions of the brain that help us consider the views of others. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/study-finds-linkage-between-social-network-structure-and-brain-activity 13 comments science
- Study Finds Troubling Consequences for Anti-Muslim and Anti-Mexican Attitudes and Actions. Americans who held those views were more likely to cast them in threatening terms, withhold sympathy to them, and support tactics on them like increased surveillance, restricting immigration, and deportation. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/troubling-consequences-of-anti-muslim-and-anti-mexican-attitudes 92 comments science
- In social movements, 'slactivists' matter. New study of Twitter use during social protests finds that a critical periphery of 'slacktivists' greatly amplify a movement's message https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/social-movements-slacktivists-matter 24 comments science
- Haters gonna hate, study confirms: people who have many negative opinions about things they know were more likely to have negative opinions about things they have not yet encountered. http://www.asc.upenn.edu/albarracin_lab/publications/hepleralbarracininpress2.pdf 21 comments science
- Why do Haters Have to Hate? Newly Identified Personality Trait Holds Clues http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/pressdetail.aspx?id=125 12 comments science
- This may be buried, but a study from UPenn shows "that an abstinence-only intervention for pre-teens was more successful in delaying the onset of sexual activity than a health-promotion control intervention" http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/pressreleasesdetail.aspx?id=37 35 comments reddit.com