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Cross-Cultural Comparison Across 5 Countries A 2023 study (Dark and Light Triad: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Network Analysis in 5 Countries) analyzed both the Light Triad Scale and Short Dark Triad in 2,335 adults from Poland, Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia, and Peru using network analysis. Key...

Several studies have extended this line of research well beyond Australia. The Original Multi-Sample Study (USA) The foundational person-centred study this paper replicates was conducted by Neumann et al. (2020) using large American samples, including visitors to a popular psychology website (N...

You can test your Light Triad and Dark Triad traits to see where you fit in all this. These are the same test as used for this study, namely : The Light Triad Scale (LTS) was published by Kaufman et al. (2019) The Short Dark Triad (SD3) by Jones & Paulhus (2014)

Most of us like to think we're fundamentally good people — but a new study published in Personality and Individual Differences (2026) suggests that human moral personality is more nuanced than a simple good-versus-bad divide. Researchers from Deakin University, Columbia University, and the...

I have sorted the samples from Altheim by Y-DNA haplogroups and indicated the main SNPs. I had to look them up one by one manually, so I am not going to do it for all 20 sites in the study. This could nevertheless by useful to track the arrival of some lineages in South Germany, notably the...

What this study actually changes for us — a pop-gen perspective Prior model: Rome as a transient mixing event Until recently, the working consensus from papers like Margaryan et al. (eLife, 2024) and Antonio et al. (Science, 2019) was that the Roman Empire created transient genetic...

A landmark new study published in Nature sheds unprecedented light on the people who lived along the old Roman frontier in southern Germany between 400 and 700 CE — and overturns some long-held assumptions about migration, marriage, and mortality in the post-Roman world. The Study at a Glance...

Interesting hypothesis. But we do not have to guess. This can easily be verified. Pre-Lion Coins (1126–c. 1133) Alfonso VII's earliest issues still follow Leonese tradition with crosses and mitered heads: Dinero of León (1126–c. 1130): +ALFNVS IMPERATOR REX / +LEO CIVITAS — cross patée...

I was wondering where and when exactly did lions start being adopted on coat of arms in Medieval Europe. I did my research and here is what I found. Anjou (1128 / Geoffrey Plantagenet) León (1134 / Alfonso VII) Flanders (1158–63 / Philip of Alsace) Holland (1160–62 / Floris III) Swabia (1181)...

When I saw this, I thought it was a joke at first. How could this be possible in a democracy? But it's true, although with some caveat. The U.S. Department of State is finalizing a plan to issue a limited‑run, commemorative U.S. passport design that includes President Donald Trump’s portrait...

A new study argues that a lot of public moral and political talk is not just about beliefs or values, but also about status. The authors call this moral grandstanding — meaning the use of moral or political language to make oneself look admirable, important, or superior in front of others. That...

This may have something to do with it. In 2000, over 80% of British people had a favorable opinion of the United States and vice versa. While public opinion of Britain has remained high in the US, British opinion of America has completely collapsed to about 30% of positive opinion – nearly three...

For the first time in recorded history, more Americans are moving to Europe than Europeans moving to the United States. In 2005, there were 140,000 Europeans moving to the U.S. against the 30,000 Americans moving to Europe. The gap has narrowed a lot since COVID and since 2022 more Americans...

The racial differences in the US are reflected in the countries of origin after various populations. Overall, people of European and East Asian descent spend much less time on social media and then people from latin America, the Middle East or the Southeast Asia. The map above relaxed data...

I came across this intriguing ceremonial hat dating from about 1000 to 800 BCE. Here is a close-up. It seems to have been used as a kind of calendar. Archaeologists seem to believe that it was used as a hat, but it could just as well have been used for display in a sort of temple.

The European search engine Ecosia has reached a new milestone. They have now planted 250 million trees. Just by millions of people switching to a browser that puts privacy and the environment first.

More than half of all new city buses in Europe are now electric.

A new bioRxiv preprint reports that a small subset of Neanderthal-derived genetic variants still affects brain structure in present-day humans, even though many archaic variants appear to have been removed over time by selection. Using genetic and MRI data, the authors argue that surviving...

If anyone is still in doubt that the US war on Iran is hugely profitable to the United States, have a look at this chart. Qatar's LNG exports have dropped from 8.3% of the world's supply to almost nothing. The US, to a lower extent, Australia have filled the gap. Overall consumption has dropped...

Most of us have an intuitive sense that people differ not just in how "smart" they are overall, but in their specific cognitive strengths and weaknesses — some people are gifted at math, others at language, others at rapid processing. But how much of that profile is inherited? A major 2022...