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Why we desire partners who have had relationship experience

  • Written by: Ryan Anderson, PhD Candidate, School of Arts and Social Sciences, James Cook University
image'The Wedding Ring Effect' is the idea that simply by wearing a wedding ring a man is somehow imbued with a host of desirable characteristics.shutterstock

Mate copying (sometimes called mate-choice copying) is where an individual is preferred as a future romantic partner simply because they have relationship experience.

Mate copying is a form of...

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From Elvis to Cobain, The Sound of Falling Stars revives those dead before their time

  • Written by: William Peterson, Senior Lecturer in Drama, Flinders University
imageCameron Goodall in The Sound of Falling Stars at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Damian Bennett

What unites Sid Vicious and Ricky Nelson, Elvis and Kurt Cobain, is not just that they were singers, but that they all died young. The Sound of Falling Stars, which was performed at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and was written and directed by the...

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How to help kids navigate fake news and misinformation online

  • Written by: Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Technology and Learning, Western Sydney University
imageResearch has shown kids can be duped by native advertising.Syda Productions/Shutterstock

Young people get a huge amount of their news from social media feeds, where false, exaggerated or sponsored content is often prevalent. With the right tools, caregivers can give kids the knowledge they need to assess credible information for themselves.

Being...

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  2. Bust the regional city myths and look beyond the 'big 5' for a $378b return
  3. Three charts on: cancer rates in Australia, where liver cancer is on the rise while other types fall
  4. FactCheck: was Christian Porter right about welfare spending and income tax?
  5. Why is there so little space for women in jazz music?
  6. Ten years on, it's time we learned the lessons from the failed Northern Territory Intervention
  7. Remote workers would rather be watched than ignored and forgotten
  8. Ken Campbell: the palaeontologist whose name lives on in many fossils
  9. Sludge, snags, and surreal animals: life aboard a voyage to study the abyss
  10. Phone scams cost billions. Why isn't technology being used to stop them?
  11. Australians are increasingly non-partisan: Morrison
  12. Greens senator Rhiannon's behaviour 'perfidious': Brown
  13. Apologies: Your Best Guide on the Internet
  14. David Petraeus on US policy under Donald Trump, the generational war against Islamist terrorism, and dealing with China
  15. Politics podcast: Gladys Berejiklian on the need to reform federal-state partnerships
  16. Politics podcast: Alan Finkel on the future of Australia's energy market
  17. Paramedics treating more young women for alcohol intoxication than men
  18. Weekly Quiz: which cultural heritage site was destroyed by the Islamic State on Thursday?
  19. Will Australians ever give up Uber?
  20. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's Gonski 2.0 win and citizenship changes
  21. Destroying Mosul's Great Mosque: Islamic State's symbolic war to the end
  22. Act now to protect your digital rights, Big Brother and his Little Sisters may be watching
  23. Co-housing works well for older people, once they get past the image problem
  24. What is 'cognitive reserve'? How we can protect our brains from memory loss and dementia
  25. Trucks are destroying our roads and not picking up the repair cost
  26. Could long-distance bullies in Australia face up to 20 years in jail for encouraging suicide?
  27. The passage of Gonski 2.0 is a victory for children over politics
  28. Australia is still lagging on some aspects of early childhood education
  29. Should 'pro-ana' websites be criminalised in Australia?
  30. How to ask for a pay rise
  31. Vital Signs: it will take more than asking for a pay rise to fix Australia's wages problem
  32. Explainer: how law enforcement decodes your photos
  33. Who's responsible? Housing policy mismatched to our $6 trillion asset
  34. Friday essay: the legend of Ishtar, first goddess of love and war
  35. Is it really so wrong to care for an introduced bird species?
  36. The Lark Descending: are non-native birds undervalued in New Zealand?
  37. Grattan on Friday: Plenty of 'rising damp' in Turnbull government's approach
  38. Pauline Hanson is wrong – we need to include children with disability in regular classrooms
  39. Explainer: how malware gets inside your apps
  40. Make Money this Winter and Hire out Your Van
  41. Gene testing for the public: a way to ward off disease, or a useless worry?
  42. The government's new energy plans will leave investors less confident than ever
  43. 'Who knew the world could be so awful': Alice Birch's apocalyptic feminist theatre
  44. Journalists in war zones tread a fine line between safety and freedom of speech
  45. Why the sunrise is still later after the winter solstice shortest day
  46. Why is the Australian government funding Hollywood films at the expense of our stories?
  47. It's easy to do business in New Zealand but it needs to be easier
  48. Growing up in disadvantaged areas may affect teens' brains, but good parenting can help
  49. Restricting bail and parole for those with terror links is no cure-all
  50. Are we counting culture to death?

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