News in Brief Just Because He’s Hot Doesn’t Mean He’s Healthy A new study suggests we didn’t evolve to find healthy people more attractive. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Mattel/Newsmakers)… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How to Improve Your Decision-Making The key is to poll a crowd, then do what they least expect. By Nathan Collins (Photo: stressedtechy/Flickr)… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Does a Death in the Family Perpetuate Racial Inequality? African Americans are more likely to lose a loved one, which could perpetuate disparities in health. By Nathan… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Smart, Emotionally Stable People Enjoy Morbid Humor A taste for the grotesque is no reason for embarrassment. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief We Don’t Gradually Glide Into Corrupt Behavior—We Jump Head First New research disputes the popular “slippery slope” notion of corruption. By Tom Jacobs (Photo: nist6dh/Flickr) The specter of… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Is Mass Murder Now Part of the Repertoire of Contention? New ways of protest are being invented every day, with a society’s repertoire of contention in constant evolution.… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief A Sense of Purpose Yields Financial Rewards People who are guided by an internal compass tend to accumulate more wealth. By Tom Jacobs (Photo: 401(K)… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Dream Recall Helps Boost Creativity Don’t let all that internally produced imagery go to waste. By Tom Jacobs (Photo: Gavin Clarke/Flickr) If you’re… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why We Live in Ideological Enclaves The psychological roots of our troublesome tendency to live among the like-minded. By Tom Jacobs (Photo: lecrajane/Flickr) This… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief We Are Absurdly Confident of Our Superiority Two new studies find that we often think of ourselves as both morally superior and less biased than… Pacific Standard Staff