25 interesting facts #37

901. Invitees overestimate the likelihood that an inviter prefers the invitee respond with "maybe" rather than "no" to an invitation (Givi et al. 2025)

902. Academic publications are more likely to include Cronbach's alpha values of at least .70 (Hussey et al. 2025)

903. Women are interrupted more than men when presenting research in economics seminars (Dupas et al. 2025)

904. Taylor Swift’s lyrics have moved over time from more lyric-focused towards more deep and conflicting emotions (Clipperton and Bitsikokos 2025)

905. Wages at 50 are better predicted by cognitive skills at 16 than by cognitive skills at 50 (Bolt 2025)

906. The availability of the internet has reduced inequalities in chess (Grechyna and Grechyn 2025)

907. Legislators talk less about the future as they age (Hanretty et al. 2025)

908. Humans were making fire in the UK 400,000 years ago (Davis et al. 2025)

909. The Condorcet paradox holds little to no empirical relevance in national elections (Barbaro and Kurella 2025)

910. Tanning bed users are more likely to develop melanoma (Gerami et al. 2025)

911. Professional forecasters overreact to idiosyncratic but underreact to common information (Gemmi and Valchev 2026)

912. Female suicide bombers inflict fewer fatalities than their male counterparts (Choi and Acosta 2025)

913. Elections increase satisfaction with democracy (Singh 2025)

914. Elite soccer players possess personality traits like high conscientiousness and openness to experience (Bonetti et al. 2025)

915. Heritability of human life span due to intrinsic mortality is above 50% (Shenar et al. 2026)

916. Overall cognitive-personality functioning peaks between ages 55 and 60 (Gignac and Zajenkowski 2025)

917. Genetic variation contributes to proneness to chills from artistic, poetic, and musical expressions (Bignardi et al. 2026)

918. When education is in-person, attractive students receive higher grades (Mehic 2022)

919. Politically liberal are more likely to believe that words can cause lasting psychological harm (Pratt et al. 2026)

920. Managerial performance is strongly predicted by economic decision-making skill (Weidmann et al. 2026)

921. Dog genetic diversification started well before 14,200 years ago (Bergström et al. 2026)

922. In Stanley Milgram's obedience study, no entirely “fully obedient” participant fully obeyed the procedures Milgram's experimenter instructed them to do (Kaposi and Sumeghy 2026)

923. One tonne of CO2 emitted in 1990 caused US$180 in discounted global damages by 2020 (Burke et al. 2026)

924. There is no evidence of a gendered pattern whereby women political leaders face unique penalties in crises (Horiuchi and Johnson 2026)

925. Better-paid local politicians are less likely to be corrupt (Klasnja et al. 2026)