From the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences press release: Imagine you are choosing between two resorts for your island vacation. The factors driving your decision will be “quality” and “price,” but “quality”…
From the Tufts University press release: Telling job applicants how many people applied for a job on LinkedIn – regardless of whether the number of applicants was high or low – increased the number of…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Class clowns’ off-task antics amuse and delight their classmates during first and second grades, making them the most sought-after playmates on the playground in early elementary…
From the University of Cambridge press release: People who feel in control of their lives and who find purpose and meaning in life are less likely to have anxiety disorders even when going through the…
From the University of Connecticut press release: Expectations and biases play a large role in our experiences. This has been demonstrated in studies involving art, wine and even soda. In 2007, Joshua Bell, an internationally…
From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst press release: Results of a new study by cognitive psychologist and speech scientist Alexandra Jesse and her linguistics undergraduate student Michael Bartoli at the University of Massachusetts Amherst…
From the Institute for Basic Science press release: Researchers at the Center for Cognition and Sociality, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), have just published in Neuron about a genetic variant that controls and increases empathy-driven…
From the University of Sydney press release: A new international study led by University of Sydney has found that medication use increases in newly diagnosed dementia patients, particularly unnecessary or inappropriate medications. Published today in Journals…
From the Society for Consumer Psychology press release: People rely on financial managers, doctors and lawyers to be as objective as possible when making decisions about investments, health and legal issues, but findings from a…
From the Chapman University press release: Chapman University has published research measuring gender differences in cooperation and punishment behavior. Results showed that men punish more than women, men obtain higher rank, and punishment by males…