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Joseph Shavit
- Mar 13
Machine learning can predict if you'll leave your partner
Researchers used machine learning techniques to analyze data on 2,038 married or cohabiting couples who participated in the GSEP Survey.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 11
What makes a voice attractive to others -- study finds
What makes a voice attractive is the subject of broad interest, with far-reaching implications in our personal lives, workplaces and society
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 11, 2021
A visit from a social robot improves hospitalized children’s outlook
A new study finds a visit from human-controlled robot encourages a positive outlook and improves medical interactions for hospitalized kids.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 24, 2021
Earliest evidence of human activity found in the Americas
Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas.
Joshua Shavit
- Sep 4, 2021
Research shows that, one-on-one, humanoid robots can psych us out
Gaze is an extremely powerful and important signal during human-human communication and interaction informing about other's decisions.
Joshua Shavit
- Sep 4, 2021
Do genetics control who our friends are?
Have you ever met someone you instantly liked, or at other times, someone who you knew immediately that you did not want to be friends with.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 1, 2021
What makes a voice attractive?
What makes a voice attractive? The question is the subject of broad interest, with far-reaching implications in our lives and society.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 21, 2021
Humans vs. automation: Service center agents can outperform technology, study shows
The solution may not be human versus machine, according to new research, but an approach that combines both.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 21, 2021
Empathy training could reduce violent, sexual, and fraud-related crime
Research suggests a new, low-cost approach that could potentially reduce antisocial behavior and crime.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 20, 2021
Use your team’s emotions to boost creativity
If you’re putting together a team for a project, you might be inclined to pick people with cheerful, optimistic dispositions but maybe not.
Joshua Shavit
- Aug 14, 2021
Assigned classroom seats can promote friendships between dissimilar students
Students of varying gender, ethnicity, educational achievement were more likely to become friends after induced proximity
Joshua Shavit
- Aug 10, 2021
To do or not to do: Cracking the code of motivation
By manipulating the dopamine receptors of monkeys and studying their behavior, scientists reveal how our brain makes us feel motivated.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 29, 2021
Teleportation through VR - New technologies let you experience the world in a new way
Teleportation is a technology that people know from Star Trek and other various science fiction movies. While an interesting concept...
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 19, 2021
Study finds women can predict a man's attitude toward casual sexual relationships based on his face
A pair of researchers at Macquarie University has found that women are able to accurately gauge a man's interest in casual sexual relations
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 18, 2021
Research points to why humans are less prone to help outsiders than within their group
A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an outsider
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 15, 2021
Two-thirds of romantic couples start out as friends, study finds
Movies and television often show romance begin when two strangers meet. Real-life couples, however, are far more likely to begin as friends