Kids are often told that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Even so, people often believe they can rely on their gut to intuit things about other people. Stereotypes often influence these ...

Many people think that they can recognize a gay man based on his speech. In other words, they believe that they have a gaydar. Previous linguistic studies showed that some features of language used by ...

In the 2013 movie Philomena, an unwed teenage mother is forced to give up her toddler for adoption. Many decades later, she enlists the aid of a journalist to help her find her grown son. When they ...