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17-Dec-2024

World’s only bonobo sanctuary helps orphaned apes overcome trauma to develop social skills and empathy

Durham University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Apes orphaned by the illegal trade in bushmeat and pets can overcome trauma and develop social abilities like those of their mother-reared peers.

Journal: Royal Society Open Science
Funder: Templeton World Charity Foundation, H2020 European Research Council

17-Dec-2024

The high cost of carbon

University of California - Davis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The social cost of carbon — an important figure global policymakers use to analyze the benefits of climate and energy policies — is too low, finds UC Davis study.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

17-Dec-2024

Advertisers beware: How privacy-preserving policies adopted by companies like google could reduce ad effectiveness

American Marketing Association

Privacy-preserving policies that shorten the retention period of consumer data can reduce ad variety in multi-product ads, possibly leading to increased within-category satiation and diminished cross-category complementarity, ultimately negatively impacting ad performance and platform revenues.

Journal: Journal of Marketing

17-Dec-2024

When algorithms decide for you: a warning about automation and the loss of freedom

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Allowing algorithms to make more and more decisions can lead to frustration, restrict freedoms, and harm the most vulnerable people

17-Dec-2024

Heart rate activity influences when infants speak

University of Houston
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A University of Houston psychologist has found that a baby's first sweet sounds and early attempts at forming words are directly linked to the baby's heart rate.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

17-Dec-2024

Systematic bias may sway family courts and affect parental rights, particularly for fathers

University of Ottawa
Peer-Reviewed Publication

- New study with small sample size highlights systemic issues in how family courts address parental rights.

- Biases including racism, Islamophobia, and sexism shape outcomes, often to the detriment of fathers and their children

- Fathers often portrayed as authoritarian or unfit, children’s well-being neglected

- Research team advocates for bias training for judges, attorneys, and custody evaluators

Journal: Discover Psychology
Funder: Canada Research Chairs Program, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

17-Dec-2024

Missing rebound: Youth drug use defies expectations, continues historic decline

University of Michigan
Reports and Proceedings

Adolescent drug use continued to drop in 2024, building on and extending the historically large decreases that occurred during the pandemic onset in 2020.