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Psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley, recently used ridiculous-sounding questions to gain a better understanding of why we disagree with others so often during some of the most frustrating societal arguments. Some of the questions

"When people are disagreeing, it may not always be about what they think it is," says Celeste Kidd.

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As social creatures, we care what others think — but that has a big downside.

A study by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Kidd Lab found that people unconsciously track others’ beliefs to determine beliefs of their own.

Babies can get bored, but it’s not in the same way that older kids do and fixing it is as simple as a change of scenery.

How Researchers Are Making Do in the Time of COVID-19 21/12/2020 Image: UN/Unsplash. One of the astonishing aspects of the human response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been how quickly scientists pivoted to studying every facet of the virus in order to mitigate the loss of life and plan for a return to normalcy. At the same time, a lot of non-coronavirus research ground to a near halt. With research labs and offices shuttered for all but essential workers, many scientists were stuck a...