Newsroom – Category: Humanities

Researchers studied the vocal experiences of children growing up on Malakula Island in Vanuatu where multilingualism is the norm more

Study on the impact of different risk communication formats on the vaccine intentions of 1255 unvaccinated, vaccine-hesitant adults in Germany more

Study on the effectiveness of restrictions takes citizens’ behavioral changes into account more

Study reveals how people resolve dilemmas in online content moderation more

Researchers test cognitive abilities of the language model GPT-3 more

Interview with Johanna Rinceanu and Randall Stephenson, senior researchers at the Department of Criminal Law at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg, on what medical diagnosis and modern-day internet regulation have in common more

New archaeogenetic data allow exciting insights into the social order of the Aegean Bronze Age more

In his new book, Matthias Sutter, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, presents current insights from the field of behavioural economics to better understand "human factor" in professional life and to enable successful cooperation. more

Researchers showed participants videos of human, dog, and macaque pairs to determine how well humans assess social interactions more

Anastasia Kozyreva on strategies that help us gain more control over the way we use online media more