From the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business press release: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is typically used by medical professionals to visualize the internal structures of the human body. By using MRI to study the…
From the University of Chicago press release via EurekAlert!: In a study with implications for businesspeople in a global economy, researchers at the University of Chicago have found that people make more rational decisions when…
From the Pamplin College of Business press release: Many studies have looked at the impact of sleep deprivation on workers’ health, safety, and morale, says Pamplin College of Business management assistant professor Christopher Barnes, but…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: People who believe the world is a just place trust salespeople more than consumers who don’t—but only after they’ve made a purchase, according to…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Consumers who feel financially deprived are more likely to seek scarce products, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. “The…
From the Vanderbilt University press release: If you are an aging baby boomer and you’ve noticed it’s a bit harder to drive to unfamiliar locations or to pick a new brand of olive oil at…
From the University of Alabama at Birmingham press release via Newswise: A traumatic brain injury can negatively affect a patient’s medical decision-making ability at a time when patients or their families must make myriad complex…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Tests exist for evaluating personality, intelligence and memory. However, up to now, it was not easily possible to find out how good someone is at making decisions in risky situations.…
From the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid press release via AlphaGalileo: Researchers at Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Zaragoza theoretically predict, in a scientific study, that contact networks have no influence…
From the University of Pittsburgh press release: A team of University of Pittsburgh mathematicians is using computational models to better understand how the structure of neural variability relates to such functions as short-term memory and…