In a late contender for the strangest scientific discovery of the year, researchers have concluded that people are innately kinder when Batman is present, whether they’re aware of him or not.
In the paper ‘Unexpected events of prosocial behavior: the Batman effect‘, Italian clinical psychologists conducted a unique experiment. First, they had a woman who appeared pregnant board busy subway cars and counted how many people offered her a seat. Then they repeated this, but with “an additional experimenter dressed as Batman” entering the carriage from another door.
