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The "38 witnesses who did nothing" became a textbook parable of human indifference. Here is what really happened in 1964, what the famous bystander experiments found, and what security cameras reveal about how often people actually step in.
Economists predicted that wallets stuffed with cash would be returned less often. The opposite happened. Here is how the lost wallet experiment worked, what it found, and what it tells us about why people are honest.
Almost everyone over thirty says the years are speeding up. Studies show the feeling is real, but it is not quite what it seems: it is mostly about memory, novelty and how we look back. What the research says and how to make time feel longer.
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