From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: The ability to correctly identify signs of depression depends on the gender of both the identifier and the person with depression, as well as individual…
From the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto press release: Businesses will get more accurate assessments of potential and current employees if they do away with self-rated personality tests and ask those being assessed…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Different units can be used to describe product features, but what may seem a rather arbitrary choice may have profound consequences for consumer product…
From the University of Chicago press release via EurekAlert!: A pre-election survey by the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago found that party affiliation alters how people react to political as well…
From the Oregon State University press release: Many baby boomers want to improve the way people view aging, but an Oregon State University researcher has found they often reinforce negative stereotypes of old age when…
From the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (Japan) press release: A team of Japanese scientists have found scientific proof that people doing exercises appear to perform better when another person compliments them. The research was…
From the SF State University press release via EurekAlert!: Unemployed workers who continue to identify with their former employer report higher well-being even after being fired or laid off from the company, according to a…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: “Visual diet,” or the images that women see, may be just as critical to their weight preferences as associating certain body types with success, according…
From the University of Bristol press release via EurekAlert!: Professor Alexander Bentley and colleagues found that words commonly used by scientists when discussing climate science – such as ‘biodiversity’, ‘global’, and ‘isotopes’ – follow fashion…
From the Taylor & Francis press release via AlphaGalileo: Comedians publicly ridiculing a presidential candidate may cause audiences to have negative attitudes toward that individual, according to a study by Amy Bree Becker, Assistant Professor…