16-01-03 British psychologist Richard Wiseman has done several surveys on willpower - in 2007 he tracked the success of 3,000 people's New Year's resolutions, only to find that a mere 12 percent of them managed to achieve what they had set out to do. He look...

15-12-28 We've had WAGS, yuppies and metrosexuals; now meet our newest social phenomenon, TWITs . 我们身边有太太团，雅皮士，还有都市型男，如今，我们又有了一个新的社会群族：中嫩族。 The TWITs are Teenage Women In Their Thirties. 中嫩族也就是3字头少女。 Just l...

15-12-19 Psychologists from Australia have found that people who are quicker at answering general knowledge questions come across as more charismatic. 澳大利亚的心理学家研究发现，在普通的知识问答中反应较快的人看上去更有魅力。 Other factors, such as IQ and em...

15-12-08 Social notworking refers to the practice of spending time unproductively on social-networking websites, especially when one should be working. Social notworking（暂译为社交不工作）指在工作时间上社交网站闲逛的行为。 With today's social media -- espec...

15-12-03 JACK KEROUAC, ON THE ROAD Published in 1957, Kerouac's masterpiece captured the voice of America's 'Beat Generation', an iconoclastic group of writers that sprung up in the post-war US as a reaction against mainstream social values:materialism, capi...

15-11-29 The rise of mobile phones has been blamed for a number of social ills, but your smart phone may also be making you physically sick as well. 移动电话的广泛使用被指引发了诸多社会弊端，不仅如此，手中的智能机也会让你觉得身体不适。 Scientists have identi...

15-11-26 Selfeet is a new variation on selfie, which means to capture a person's shoes atop high-impact flooring. 晒脚自拍是自拍的一个新门类，指用镜头捕捉双脚站在颇具视觉冲击力的地板上的画面。 Since they made their first appearances early last year, selfeets...

15-11-19 Because social media is used so pervasively in modern society to tap into people's behaviors and thoughts, neuroscientists are finding Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms to be very useful tools in a broad range of research areas. A review publis...

15-11-19 Wild-caught chimpanzees, who were orphaned and imported from Africa in their early infancy, exhibit an impaired social behaviour also as adults. So far long-term effects of early traumatic experiences on social behaviour were known only for humans a...

15-11-18 Social media narcissist refers to people who're curating social media images of themselves. 社交媒体自恋狂是指迷恋上存在于社交媒体中虚幻自己的人。 One of the most common refrains about the explosive growth of social media is that it makes many of us...