From the University of Utah press release: It’s a lesson in scholastic humility: You waltz into an exam, confident that you’ve got a good enough grip on the class material to swing an 80 percent…
From the University of Waterloo press release: Novice gamblers who watched a short video about how slot machines disguise losses as wins have a better chance of avoiding gambling problems, according to new research. Slot machines…
From the University of Texas at Dallas press release: When making important purchase decisions, consumers often consult multiple sources of information. A new study from The University of Texas at Dallas examines how consumers allocated their…
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: Presumably, in industrialized countries, especially in middle Europe, most people have never come across a poisonous spider or snake in the wild. In…
From the Society for Personality and Social Psychology press release: When it comes to financial investments, hedge fund managers higher in “dark triad” personality traits — psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism — perform more poorly than their…
From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology press release: Infidelity is very common. At least 20 per cent of couples – and perhaps many more, depending on where you set the limit – are…
From the Brigham Young University press release: Ever tried to sell something you’ve owned for a while on Craigslist and found that no one is willing to pony up what you’re asking? It’s because you’re asking…
From the Lehigh University press release: Parents of children with ADHD can feel desperate for resources or treatments to help their children who struggle with inattention, distractibility and impulsiveness affecting school and home. Researchers at…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Today’s college students are slightly less narcissistic than their counterparts were in the 1990s, researchers report in a new study — not significantly more, as some have…
From the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences press release: In the U.S. today, the majority of professional stock market traders are young males and new evidence suggests biology strongly influences their trading behavior.…