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Hiding in Plain Sight – Katherine Wood

Did you catch that? Katherine Wood from the University of Illinois talks with us about her research with Daniel Simons, the scientist behind the famous “Invisible Gorilla” experiments, into if and when people notice unexpected objects in inattentional blindness tasks.

The week's top science news from @ParsingScience ...

Brain parasite strips rodents of fears of felines

The cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii found to dampen anxiety and boost curiosity in mice, making them more likely to be caught by cats, thus continuing the parasite’s life cycle.

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Disproportional burden of health care

Health care costs the poorest households twice what it costs the highest income Americans in terms of earned income.

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Personality predicts seeing others as sex objects

First study to examine the personality traits associated with sexual objectification, finds that several personality traits related to psychopathy — especially being openly antagonistic — predict a tendency to sexually objectify others.

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Genome reference database published

Scientists develop whole genome baseline of healthy elderly adults, providing a better means of identifying genes associated with diseases in the future.

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Keeping guns away from potential mass shooters

Over a third of mass shooters have committed domestic violence and, despite legal prohibitions, the majority have obtained firearms anyway.

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Information could account for universe’s dark matter

Scientists propose that, under E = mc², the generation of data could explain the apparent presence of dark matter.

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Why women have to be likable and men don't

Study suggests that likability matters for women in every one of their interactions but, for men, it matters only if they interact with the opposite sex.

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Upcoming guests

Temple Grandin from Colorado State University's Department of Animal Sciences joins us to discuss her open-access article "Crossing the divide between academic research and practical application of ethology and animal behavior information on commercial livestock and poultry farms" [airing February 4, 2020].

Royel Johnson from Pennsylvania State University's Department of Education Policy Studies discusses his article "The state of research on undergraduate youth formerly in foster care: A systematic review of the literature" [airing February 18, 2020].

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