25 interesting facts #9
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Rats can learn the complex task of navigating a car to a desired goal area (Crawford et al. 2020)
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90% of academics in the UK have been working while sick at least sometimes (Kinman and Wray 2021)
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Back-to-front airline boarding in response to the COVID-19 pandemic roughly doubles the infection exposure compared with random boarding (Islam et al. 2021)
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Consuming food from a shared plate promotes cooperation (Woolley and Fishbach 2019)
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In the US, press releases opposing action to address climate change are more likely to be cited in national newspapers (Wetts 2020)
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It is better to rely on mass media or advertising than influencers to get out your message (Rossman and Fisher 2021)
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Trends in immigration news are largely unaffected by real-life developments (Jacobs et al. 2018)
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Mutual fund managers from poor families outperform managers from rich families, because the latter are likely to be promoted for reasons unrelated to performance (Chuprinin and Sosyura 2018)
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Citizens want the ideal-type politician to be more disagreeable than the average citizen (Aichholzer and Willmann 2020)
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Cuttlefish can tolerate delays to obtain food of higher quality (Schnell et al. 2021)
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Having children does not increase environmental concerns (Milfont et al. 2020)
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The correlation between peer-review scores of grant proposals assigned by different reviewers is only 0.2 (Jerrim and de Vries 2020)
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One-third of Amazon rainfall originates within its own basin (Staal et al. 2018)
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Fewer young adults have casual sex, partially because of an increase in computer gaming and declines in drinking frequency (South and Lei 2021)
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Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions (Crippa et al. 2021)
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Cognitive complexity increases climate change belief (Chen and Unsworth 2019)
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, new cycling infrastructure created cyclists (Kraus and Koch 2021)
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Access to daylight and views in office buildings lead to improved productivity (MacNaughton et al. 2021)
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Day-to-day temperature variability reduces economic growth (Kotz et al. 2021)
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Cyclists have 84% lower CO2 emissions from all daily travel than non-cyclists (Brand et al. 2021).
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People judge slowly generated predictions from algorithms as less accurate (Efendić et al. 2020)
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Social norms moderate associations between personality traits and social distancing behaviors in a pandemic (Ludeke et al. 2021)
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A CO2 emission into the atmosphere is more effective at raising atmospheric CO2 than an equivalent CO2 removal is at lowering it (Zickfeld et al. 2021)
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Spotify’s New Music rankings favor indie-label music and music by women (Aguiar et al. 2021)
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Citations make statements slightly more believable (Putnam and Phelps 2017)