From the UC Berkeley press release by Yasmin Anwar via ScienceDaily: It’s no accident that money obtained through dishonest or illegal means is called “dirty money.” A new study from the University of California, Berkeley,…
From the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management press release via ScienceDaily: Imagine you have a choice to make. In one scenario, you’d get $8 and somebody else — a stranger — would get…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release via EurekAlert!: Poor children who move three or more times before they turn 5 have more behavior problems than their peers, according to a new…
From the American Sociological Association press release via EurekAlert!: Research has long linked high socioeconomic status with better health and lower mortality. But what’s remained unclear is whether this association has more to do with…
From the University of Kansas press release via MedicalXpress: Much research in psychology and economics has shown that people are “loss averse,” meaning they tend to weigh losses more strongly than equivalent gains. For example,…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Consumers systematically mispredict both the selling and purchase prices of other consumers due to a lack of cognitive and emotional connection, according to a…
From the Emory University press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, are the first to show chimpanzees possess a sense of fairness that has previously been attributed as…
From the UC Davis media release: Workers earning the lowest wages have a higher risk of hypertension than workers with the highest wages, according to new research from UC Davis. The correlation between wages and…
From the University of Cambridge press release via HealthCanal: Higher rates of schizophrenia in urban areas can be attributed to increased deprivation, increased population density and an increase in inequality within a neighbourhood, new research…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Some people like to have a few close friends, while others prefer a wider social circle that is perhaps less deep. These preferences reflect people’s personalities and…