How to refuse sexual harassment? People who are curious are greedy.

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Curious people are more greedy?

A series of studies have found that unsatisfied curiosity can lead to cognitive deprivation, which makes people seek other forms of rewards or compensation and become more greedy or extravagant.

For example, one of the studies found that people with high curiosity will choose more expensive vacation methods; In another study, curious people ate 50% more chocolate; The study also found that the "insula" in the brain of people with strong curiosity is more active, and the "insula" is related to finding rewards.

At the same time, there is a new discovery: when people need rewards for eating or shopping, they can use other ways (such as watching happy movies) instead of eating and shopping to compensate for the need for rewards.

So, the next time you go shopping in the supermarket, you can download some funny videos from your mobile phone when you want to chop your hands. (Of course, it may not work. )

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Some people have a good brain even if they don't get much sleep.

A recent study found that a father and son can maintain good health and memory even if they don't get enough sleep. The reason is simple: the NPSR 1 gene of the father and son has mutated.

Experiments on mice also found that mice with the mutation of NPSR 1 gene will sleep less, but they can also resist the influence of sleep deprivation on memory.

I am very sour and want to have this gene mutation.

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A New Branch of Psychology: "Latitude Psychology"

Recently, a group of people studied "how latitude leads to psychological characteristics and cultural differences of people in different countries", resulting in "latitude psychology".

Whether in the southern hemisphere or the northern hemisphere, people in countries far from the equator (such as Denmark and New Zealand) have higher happiness, individualism and creativity than people in countries close to the equator (such as Vietnam and Cambodia). The closer the country is to the equator, the more aggressive it is. This may be because countries at high latitudes are generally richer, with fewer natural disasters and more opportunities for education and personal growth.

It is also found that people in high latitude countries place more emphasis on punctuality. This may be because the seasonal changes in high latitudes are more obvious, and people need to make more preparations for seasonal changes.

Well, it seems that some psychological conditions of human beings are really determined at birth.

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Men prefer abbreviations.

A series of studies have found that men prefer abbreviations to women in communication, such as calling mobile games "mobile games".

The researchers believe that the reasons for this gender difference may lie in the scale and homogeneity of social networks (women prefer to communicate in small social networks), communication motivation, men's and women's perception of the homogeneity and distance of the audience and the sense of power.

What is happening in the world?

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Eliminate discrimination with Disney AI

Disney dresses use artificial intelligence technology to identify sexism in TV script lines.

Through cooperation with Gina Davis and a media gender research institution, Disney has developed an AI tool that can "check spelling discrimination", which can quickly analyze scripts and evaluate male and female roles, LGBTQI groups, people of color, the number of disabled people and their social status.

So, what is the use of this tool? The most direct performance is probably that there will not be so many tragic princesses in future film and television works.

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Siri rejects "sexual harassment"

In May this year, a UNESCO report pointed out that voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa often make vague and docile responses when facing sexual harassment remarks, which may encourage gender prejudice against women.

Therefore, Apple adjusted Siri's answer to "feminism" related questions. Siri must remain neutral when dealing with this controversial topic.

In addition, Siri's voice has always been a female voice by default. SamSmethers, CEO of FawcettSociety, a feminist organization, believes that these similar voice assistants are gender-biased, and the fundamental reason is that they are designed by men. Only by letting more women participate in the development and design of these technologies can we really change.

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Publish a paper and draw a map of child death.

This research is a big project, which draws a detailed death map of children under five in low-income countries around the world.

This study investigated the differences in the risk of death of children before the age of five in different regions, and drew the following conclusions:

It is estimated that between 2000 and 2065, 654.38+23 million children died.

The global number of child deaths dropped from19.6 million in 1950 to 5.4 million in 20 17.

During the period of 2000-20 17, the child mortality rate in all the countries studied decreased by 4 1%.

In 20 17, 93% of child deaths occurred in low-and middle-income countries, and the countries with the highest child mortality rate were India, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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The United States plans to collect immigrant DNA, which worries scientists.

The US government plans to collect DNA samples of all detained immigrants and store them in the FBI database, which will be used to help solve the case.

Scientists are very anxious about this. They believe that the plan has the risk of invasion of privacy and genetic discrimination: if the data is not stored properly, the DNA information originally used for authentication like fingerprints may be used for other purposes, which may further lead to employment discrimination.

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