Dog owners' activity levels extend beyond the time they spend with their dog. The survey also found that dog owners are more ...

What if the roots of your workplace culture lie in your boss’s childhood? Early family dynamics can shape leadership styles ...

A new study published in June 2025 has quantified “cool.” The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, ...

According to the study, the six traits that define coolness are: extroversion, hedonism, power, adventurousness, openness, ...

Our personalities say a lot about us, the way we do things, think and behave. Let’s find out how much do our genes influence ...

The researchers – from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, the University of Arizona and the University of Georgia – conducted ...

Similarly, some elements of culture are more likely to be preserved over time than others. This depends on factors like the perceived value of those cultural traits and whether they are beneficial ...

In the study, "An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years," published in PLOS One, researchers compiled a cross ...

However, scholars have found that when groups import cultural traits from their ancestral countries, some of those traits have remarkable staying power.

Humans’ apparent social learning abilities suggested a clear explanation for our unique cultural traits. Knowledgeable humans – say, someone who discovers a better way to make a spear – can ...

After all, every cultural trait emerges through interactions between minds – so how do our minds interact to produce such a degree of cultural breadth? No one knows yet.