Decoding Human Nature / Associate Professor & Researcher - ISG - Business & Economics School of Lisbon

Joined April 2016
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YouGov: 25% of “very liberal” Americans say violence can be justified to achieve political goals compared with 3% of “very conservative” Americans.
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🇫🇮 Big news from Finland: Alcohol consumption has dropped to its lowest level since the 1970s! According to THL, recorded consumption fell 4.5% last year to just 6.9 litres of pure alcohol per person aged 15 .
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Population 1B 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 100m-1B 🇺🇸 🇮🇩 🇵🇰 🇳🇬 🇧🇷 🇧🇩 🇷🇺 🇪🇹 🇲🇽 🇯🇵 🇪🇬 🇵🇭 🇨🇩 🇻🇳 10m-100m 🇮🇷 🇹🇷 🇩🇪 🇹🇭 🇹🇿 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇿🇦 🇮🇹 🇰🇪 🇲🇲 🇨🇴 🇰🇷 🇸🇩 🇺🇬 🇪🇸 🇩🇿 🇮🇶 🇦🇷 🇦🇫 🇾🇪 🇦🇴 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇲🇦 🇵🇱 🇺🇿 🇲🇾 🇲🇿 🇬🇭 🇵🇪 🇸🇦 🇲🇬 🇨🇮 🇨🇲 🇳🇵 🇻🇪 🇳🇪 🇦🇺 🇰🇵 🇸🇾 🇲🇱 🇧🇫 🇱🇰 🇹🇼 🇲🇼 🇿🇲 🇹🇩 🇰🇿 🇨🇱 🇸🇴 🇸🇳 🇷🇴 🇬🇹 🇳🇱 🇪🇨 🇰🇭 🇿🇼 🇬🇳 🇧🇯 🇷🇼 🇧🇮 🇧🇴 🇹🇳 🇸🇸 🇭🇹 🇧🇪 🇯🇴 🇩🇴 🇦🇪 🇭🇳 🇨🇺 🇹🇯 🇵🇬 🇸🇪 🇨🇿 🇵🇹 🇦🇿 1m-10m 🇬🇷 🇹🇬 🇭🇺 🇮🇱 🇦🇹 🇧🇾 🇨🇭 🇸🇱 🇱🇦 🇹🇲 🇱🇾 🇭🇰 🇰🇬 🇵🇾 🇳🇮 🇧🇬 🇷🇸 🇨🇬 🇸🇻 🇩🇰 🇸🇬 🇱🇧 🇱🇷 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇵🇸 🇨🇫 🇴🇲 🇸🇰 🇲🇷 🇮🇪 🇳🇿 🇨🇷 🇰🇼 🇵🇦 🇭🇷 🇬🇪 🇪🇷 🇲🇳 🇺🇾 🇵🇷 🇧🇦 🇶🇦 🇳🇦 🇲🇩 🇦🇲 🇯🇲 🇱🇹 🇬🇲 🇦🇱 🇬🇦 🇧🇼 🇱🇸 🇬🇼 🇸🇮 🇬🇶 🇱🇻 🇲🇰 🇧🇭 🇹🇹 🇹🇱 🇨🇾 🇪🇪 🇲🇺 🇸🇿 🇩🇯 < 1m 🇫🇯 🇰🇲 🇷🇪 🇸🇧 🇬🇾 🇧🇹 🇲🇴 🇱🇺 🇸🇷 🇲🇪 🇪🇭 🇲🇹 🇲🇻 🇨🇻 🇧🇳 🇧🇿 🇧🇸 🇮🇸 🇬🇵 🇲🇶 🇾🇹 🇻🇺 🇬🇫 🇳🇨 🇧🇧 🇵🇫 🇸🇹 🇼🇸 🇨🇼 🇱🇨 🇬🇺 🇰🇮 🇸🇨 🇬🇩 🇫🇲 🇦🇼 🇹🇴 🇻🇨 🇦🇬 🇻🇮 🇮🇲 🇦🇩 🇰🇾 🇩🇲 🇧🇲 🇫🇴 🇬🇱 🇰🇳 🇹🇨 🇦🇸 🇸🇽 🇲🇵 🇱🇮 🇬🇮 🇻🇬 🇲🇨 🇲🇭 🇸🇲 🇳🇱 🇵🇼 🇦🇮 🇨🇰 🇳🇷 🇧🇱 🇼🇫 🇹🇻 🇵🇲 🇸🇭 🇲🇸 🇫🇰 🇹🇰 🇳🇺 🇻🇦
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"Em todas as culturas da humanidade, em todos os provérbios e contos populares, a emoção da inveja é condenada." Helmut Schoeck, In "Envy"
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"We’ve all already died. We just don’t know it yet." Leonard Susskind’s "Block Universe" idea suggests past, present & future may all coexist in space-time. Perhaps time doesn’t really "flow." Maybe that feeling is just a psychological interface evolved for survival
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"some sex differences are genuinely enormous...voice pitch, which has an effect size of around d = 4. (Curiously, the sex difference in voice pitch is larger in humans than in any other ape, including those that are much more dimorphic than us in size." swiftpress.com/book/a-billio…
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"female attraction has a dark side too...Women want men of ambition and status, interesting men as opposed to safe ones. Murderers get a lot more love letters from anonymous women than practicing accountants do." firstthings.com/repentance-a…
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This world map reminds us of the multitude of languages that humans created to communicate with each other. Today we estimate that about 25 languages die every year. Fewer modes of human expression...
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🌍 The Global Fertility Divide is widening. Africa leads with a Total Fertility Rate of 4.0, nearly double the replacement level (2.1), while Europe sits at just 1.4. Regional breakdown: • Africa: 4.0 • Middle East: 2.3 • Oceania: 2.0 • Asia: 1.7 • North America: 1.7 • South America: 1.7 • Europe: 1.4 Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024
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O crime não nasce no vazio mas de mecanismos humanos moldados ao longo da evolução. "A Mente Criminosa" explora as origens da violência, do engano e da cooperação humana. Porque, o mundo mudou. A mente humana não.
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75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and 5 animal species. Top plants: 1. Sugar 2. Maize 3. Rice 4. Wheat 5. Potatoes 6. Soy beans 7. Cassava 8. Tomatoes 9. Banana 10. Onions 11. Apples 12. Grapes Top animals: 1. Beef and milk 2. Chicken and eggs 3. Pork 4. Goat milk and meat 5. Sheep (United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization)
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25 countries/territories with the lowest fertility rates in 2025: 🇲🇴 Macao – 0.69 🇭🇰 Hong Kong – 0.74 🇰🇷 South Korea – 0.75 🇧🇱 St. Barthélemy – 0.83 🇹🇼 Taiwan – 0.86 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico – 0.94 🇸🇬 Singapore – 0.96 🇺🇦 Ukraine – 1.00 🇨🇳 China – 1.02 🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands – 1.06 🇨🇼 Curacao – 1.07 🇦🇩 Andorra – 1.10 🇲🇹 Malta – 1.11 🇨🇱 Chile – 1.13 🇸🇲 San Marino – 1.16 🇹🇭 Thailand – 1.19 🇮🇹 Italy – 1.21 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates – 1.21 🇲🇺 Mauritius – 1.21 🇧🇾 Belarus – 1.22 🇱🇹 Lithuania – 1.22 🇯🇵 Japan – 1.23 🇪🇸 Spain – 1.23 🇵🇲 Saint Pierre and Miquelon – 1.28 🇫🇮 Finland – 1.30
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x.com/al_antdp/status/205597… Mas isto é admissível?

Ha, infelizmente, muitos outros casos destes pela administração pública fora. Muitos dos quais ainda bastante fora de qualquer radar
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This chart shows my personal mortality probability (assuming I am in the US) as a 43 year old male. Have a look at your personal mortality chart in this interactive visual: flowingdata.com/projects/202…
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Suicide Rate per 100,000 people per year 🇰🇷 South Korea: 28.1 🇱🇹 Lithuania: 24.8 🇷🇺 Russia: 24.3 🇯🇵 Japan: 21.5 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 21.3 🇸🇮 Slovenia: 18.3 🇭🇺 Hungary: 18.3 🇧🇪 Belgium: 18.2 🇦🇹 Austria: 16.3 🇭🇷 Croatia: 16.0 🇫🇮 Finland: 15.9 🇿🇦 South Africa: 15.5 🇺🇸 United States: 15.3 🇪🇪 Estonia: 14.9 🇵🇱 Poland: 14.3 🇸🇪 Sweden: 14.1 🇮🇳 India: 13.9 🇮🇸 Iceland: 13.0 🇳🇿 New Zealand: 13.0 🇨🇦 Canada: 12.5 🇦🇺 Australia: 12.3 🇳🇴 Norway: 11.1 🇧🇷 Brazil: 9.5 🇦🇷 Argentina: 11.5 🇪🇸 Spain: 8.4 🇮🇹 Italy: 7.0 🇲🇽 Mexico: 7.4 🇨🇳 China: 6.7 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 6.8 🇹🇷 Turkey: 4.5 🇪🇬 Egypt: 0.9 Source: WHO / Global Burden of Disease Study 2021–2023 estimates (via World Population Review & Wikipedia) Note: Rates are age-standardized. Suicide is often underreported due to stigma and data limitations.
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