Within host evolution – what does it say about the initial infecting population?

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What does your selfie say about you?

Selfies refer to self-portraits taken by oneself using a digital camera or a smartphone. They become increasingly popular in social media. However, little is known about how selfies reflect their owners’ personality traits and how people judge others’ personality from selfies. In this study, we examined the association between selfies and personality by measuring participants’ Big Five personal...

What can biologists say about galaxy evolution ?

It is possible to borrow from a topic of biology called phylogenetic systematics, concepts and tools for a logical and objective classification of galaxies. It is based on observable properties of objects characters either qualitative (like morphology) or quantitative (like luminosity, mass or spectrum). Distance analysis can readily be performed using a method called phenetics and based on cha...

The Coolness Effect: What does your face say about you?

The human face seems to be giving off integral cues for conscious and unconscious first judgments. Just from looking at a snap shot of a face, raters can accurately predict someone’s intelligence and extraversion. Upon further investigating subjective traits perceived from the hu...

Blocking a redundant cue: what does it say about preschoolers' causal competence?

The current study investigates the degree to which preschoolers can engage in causal inferences in a blocking paradigm, a paradigm in which a cue is consistently linked with a target, either alone (A-T) or paired with another cue (AB-T). Unlike previous blocking studies with preschoolers, we manipulated the causal structure of the events without changing the specific contingencies. In particula...