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12 Feb 2026
Rich medieval Danes bought graves ‘closer to God’ despite leprosy stigma, archaeologists find
Study of inequality in medieval graves shows that stigmatized illnesses didn’t bar people from socially prestigious burials
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Featured news
20 Nov 2025
Could a child have painted that? Jackson Pollock’s famous pour-painting has child-like characteristics, study shows
Researchers find adults paint richer, more varied trajectories than children, but paintings of the latter share characteristics with famous work by expressionists, including Jackson Pollock
Featured news
22 Jul 2025
Some people could sound angrier when complaining, new study finds
The French sound sad, Québécois sound angry: research shows different cultures may utter complaints differently, highlighting that complaints could be shaped by cultural and social conventions
Social science
21 May 2024
Screen time not the main factor making parent-child interactions worse, study finds
Researchers investigated if ‘technoference’ has worse effects on parent-child interactions than non-digital distractions and found that distraction itself – not its source – may be to blame
Featured news
01 May 2024
The popular kids in school may be sleeping less
Scientists found that popular teenagers sleep less than their peers, and that popular girls experience more insomnia symptoms than popular boys
Featured news
22 Nov 2021
Does wealth always lead to a good education? This new model may help predict student success globally
Does wealth always lead to a good education? New study in Frontiers in Education proposes new model for predicting student success globally
Frontiers news
22 Mar 2018
Frontiers in Psychiatry welcomes new Specialty Chief Editor: Professor Sören Krach
Professor Sören Krach from Lübeck University, Germany, is Specialty Chief Editor of the new Social Cognition section
Humanities
19 Feb 2018
Humans will actually react pretty well to news of alien life
Research published in Frontiers in Psychology investigates humanity’s hypothetical reaction to the discovery of extraterrestrial microbial life
Psychology
14 Sep 2017
Sometimes you shouldn’t say sorry
Saying sorry when making a social rejection can have the opposite effect of its intention, reveals a study in Frontiers in Psychology.
Life sciences
15 May 2017
How physics and mathematics are helping us understand society
New research, published in Frontiers in Physics, brings together social sciences and computational physics to take a look at our society and how it works.