In his second semester in the University of Northern Colorado’s Chemical Education Ph.D. program, Navid Ahmed Sadman has already discovered his passion. He’s researching the effectiveness of educating future chemists differently using a “systems thinking” approach.
Tag: Effectiveness
Innovative fMRI Study Finds Larger Warning Labels Including Pictures Linked to Lower Desire to Consume Alcohol Products
Young adult men who viewed alcohol warning labels experienced a lower activation of the reward circuits in their brains when the warnings were larger and involved pictures, compared to more familiar small-text warnings, in a first-of-its-type study. The findings could inform more effective messaging on alcohol-containing beverages and advertisements. Despite recommendations from the World Health Organization and European Commission that warning labels be included on alcoholic products, few countries have implemented alcohol warning policies comparable to their approach to tobacco. Alcohol warnings are typically small, text-only messages. Research has been equivocal about their impact on drinking and whether incorporating pictures would increase their effectiveness, in part because most studies have relied on participants’ self-reported reactions. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has demonstrated variations in brain activation in response to varying types of tobacco warnings
Going with the gut: Exploring top management team intuition in strategic decision-making
Abstract Intuition plays a vital role in strategic decision-making, enabling executives to cut through complexity and to navigate the information processing challenges posed by dynamic environments. However, enduring questions remain concerning the antecedents and the effectiveness of intuitive strategic decision-making.…
Simple Cloth Masks Provide Significant Protection Against COVID-19 Transmission
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health research finds that even a simple cloth mask reduces the spread of COVID-19 respiratory droplets by 77 percent.