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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188531&url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251222043239.htm" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Are They Really Listening? Watch Their Blinks</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/" rel="tag" target="_blank">Science Daily - Top Society</a></p>Your eyes may reveal when your brain is working overtime. Researchers found that people blink less when trying to understand speech in noisy environments, especially during the most important moments. The effect stayed the same in bright or dark rooms, suggesting that it's driven by mental effort, not light. A drop in blinking, it turns out, is a facial marker of focused listening. The findings were published in the journal Trends in Hearing.</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188533&url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/transgender-nsa-employee-sues-trump-administration-over-executive-order-on-immutable-genders" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Trans NSA Employee Sues Trump Administration Over Executive Order</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/" rel="tag" target="_blank">PBS News Hour</a></p>A transgender employee of the U.S. National Security Agency is suing the Trump administration to block a presidential executive order that the employee says violate federal civil rights law. Sarah O'Neill, an NSA data scientist, disputes the legality of President Trump's January order requiring the federal government to recognize only two "immutable" sexes: male and female. Her lawsuit, filed Monday, says the order denies "Ms. O'Neill's very...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188536&url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/23/belgium-joins-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-at-icj?traffic_source=rss" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Belgium Joins South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel at IJC</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Al Jazeera</a></p>Belgium has formally joined the case launched by South Africa at the International Court of Justice, alleging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. On Tuesday, the ICJ—the highest court of the United Nations—said Belgium had filed a declaration of intervention in the case. Other countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, and Turkey, have already joined the proceedings, which South Africa initiated in December of 2023.</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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