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Researchers put proximity sensors on a twelve-person crew wintering at Concordia Station and tracked ten months of face-to-face contact. The crew members who spent the most time close to their colleagues reported the most conflict and mistrust — and the danger of isolation turned out to be having nowhere to escape.
McGill researchers nudged nearly 200 participants into upright or hunched posture by quietly changing tablet height rather than telling them how to sit. Those sitting upright reported significantly stronger feelings of pride and, in a balloon-inflation gambling task, took bigger risks that actually paid off. Crucially, most had no idea their posture had been manipulated — addressing the criticism that sank earlier "power pose" research.
Every clinical model says depression should dull the pull of reward. Then a team read 17 million posts — and found the pull got stronger.
Our minds take shortcuts during uncertainty. Recency bias — the tendency to overweight recent events — can derail investment decisions and long-term planning.