From the University of Münster press release: More and more, people are using internet forums as first place to look for information on health issues. However, the scientific medical information being provided there is often…
From the Penn State press release: Role models are important for aspiring scientists, but new research suggests that scientists who are known for their hard work — like Thomas Edison — are more motivating than…
From the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) press release: Sustainable materials, ecofriendly, and produced under good work conditions — convincing arguments for most of us. But how do consumers weigh compliance or non-compliance with such…
From the University of Basel press release: Employees over 50 can feel excluded and demotivated in the workplace for various reasons. They feel particularly excluded when they believe that their cognitive abilities decrease with age,…
From the University of British Columbia press release: Weather is an ever-present force in consumers’ daily lives, yet there is little marketing research on how it affects consumers and businesses. A new UBC Sauder School…
From the McGill University press release: Speech and music are two fundamentally human activities that are decoded in different brain hemispheres. A new study used a unique approach to reveal why this specialization exists. Researchers…
From the Linguistic Society of America press release: A new study exposes the fallacy of relying on pronunciation as a measure of linguistic proficiency. The study, ‘Revisiting phonetic integration in bilingual borrowing’, by Shana Poplack,…
From the Ohio State University press release: Interacting with other people is almost always a game of reading cues and volleying back. We think a smile conveys happiness, so we offer a smile in return.…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Your good deed for the day — whether lending a hand to a stranger or giving up your seat on the subway — may prompt others to…
From the Ohio State University press release: When it comes to entertainment, people enjoy seeing bad guys get their punishment more than seeing them be forgiven, a new study reveals. But even though they don’t…