From the University of Massachusetts Amherst press release: For more than 50 years, social scientists and practitioners have suggested that having members of different groups interact with each other can be an effective tool for…
From the press release: Yard signs for a local politician captured the curiosity of Katherine Haenschen. “I was driving through the region and noticed the same campaign was using a different font on signs in…
From the Flinders University press release: Many teenagers are struggling to control their impulses on the internet, in a scramble for quick thrills and a sense of power online, potentially increasing their risks of becoming…
From the University of Barcelona press release: The initiative is part of the project urGENTestimar, by the artist Ada Vilaró and the physicist Josep Perelló, researcher at the Institute of Complex Systems of the UB…
From the University of Würzburg press release: Going on a journey alone. Sitting in a plane for hours at a height of twelve kilometres above the Atlantic Ocean. With turbulence and all the inconveniences that…
museuFrom the University of Basel press release: Information about an artwork has no effect on the aesthetic experience of museum visitors. The characteristics of the artwork itself have a much stronger impact on observers. Psychologists…
From the University of Washington press release: Used in virtually all of the world’s languages, parentese is a speaking style that draws baby’s attention. Parents adopt its simple grammar and words, plus its exaggerated sounds,…
From the University of Basel press release: When choosing between multiple alternatives, people usually focus their attention on the two most promising options. The quicker we do that, the faster we make the decision. Psychologists…
From the American Marketing Association press release: Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, Texas A&M, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines the changing role…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau press release: Luxury brands and corporate social responsibility initiatives make for unlikely bedfellows — the former with their self-enhancement values, the latter with its ethos of…