From the Arizona State University press release via Physorg: Whether you’re a safe, conservative investor or a fast-trading stock-swapper, genes may actually play a role in some of your decisions. Individuals frequently exhibit investment biases,…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Consumers who are having trouble making decisions can benefit from creating some psychological—or physical—distance, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Cancer risks. Investment alternatives. Calories. Numbers are everywhere in daily life, and they figure into all sorts of decisions. A new article published in Current Directions in Psychological…
From the University of Iowa press release: Money is great for buying stuff, but a new study by University of Iowa finance professors suggests it’s also useful for keeping score and might help people make…
From the Brown University press release: Life shrouds most choices in mystery. Some people inch toward a comfortable enough spot and stick close to that rewarding status quo. Out to dinner, they order the usual.…
From the University of Abertay Dundee via MedicalXPress: New research from the University of Abertay Dundee has found evidence that left-handed people may be better decision makers than their right-handed counterparts. The new behavioural research,…
From the University of Melbourne press release: Having a simple, easy-to-pronounce name is more likely to win you friends and favour in the workplace, a study by Dr Simon Laham at the University of Melbourne…
From the Rice University press release: Among corporations involved in the 2006 stock-option backdating scandal, those implicated earlier were more likely to dismiss their top executives than those that surfaced later on, according to new…
From the Wellcome Trust press release: Testosterone makes us overvalue our own opinions at the expense of cooperation, research from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London) has found. The findings…
From the Emory University press release: An Emory University neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those…