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Tag: PERSONALITY/ATTITUDE
What makes a market transaction morally repugnant?
Study uncovers the psychological drivers of our feelings of repugnance
Prosocial behavior improves student outcomes, reduces teacher stress and burnout
$4 million in grants will help MU researchers connect virtually with Missouri teachers through ECHO platform
Older people are worse at learning to self-help, but just as good learning to help others
Older adults may be slower to learn actions and behaviours that benefit themselves, but new research shows they are just as capable as younger people of learning behaviours that benefit others. Researchers at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford found…
Communicating about climate change: What’s politics got to do with it?
In the United States, climate change is controversial, which makes communicating about the subject a tricky proposition. A recent study by Portland State researchers Brianne Suldovsky, assistant professor of communication, and Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez, assistant professor of statistics, explored how liberals…
Inadequate protection for women and girls seeking refuge in Germany
“Shadow report” with input from the University of Göttingen criticises the Federal Government’s implementation of the Istanbul Convention
Evaluating peers’ food choices may improve healthy eating habits among young adolescents
According to the World Health Organization, over 340 million children and adolescents (aged 5 to 10 years old) were classified as overweight or obese in 2016, a statistic that has risen from 14% since 1975. Childhood obesity is associated with…
How corporate managers try to fix workplace injustices by giving employees secret perks
A new study co-authored by the UBC Sauder School of Business has found that when senior managers mistreat workers, middle managers often attempt to quietly smooth things over. Robin Hood was known for stealing from the rich and giving to…
The user journey behind socially electric live event experience
News from the Journal of Marketing
Mosquito-resistant clothing prevents bites in trials
North Carolina State University researchers have created insecticide-free, mosquito-resistant clothing using textile materials they confirmed to be bite-proof in experiments with live mosquitoes. They developed the materials using a computational model of their own design, which describes the biting behavior…
Corona gets us tired
Societies act rationally and in solidarity – but also increasingly experience a sense of fatigue, says a study of Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
How experiencing diverse emotions impacts students
Experiencing a variety of positive emotions–or emodiversity–may benefit high school students, according to a study published in the British Journal of Educational Psychology . Positive emodiversity was associated with greater engagement (which has cognitive, behavioral, and emotional components) and academic…
When bosses are abusive, how employees interpret their motives makes a difference: study
A new UBC Sauder School of Business study shows that depending on how employees understand their boss’ motivation, employees can feel anger or guilt, and consequently, react differently to abusive supervision. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was a famously harsh…
Buried treasure: New study spotlights bias in leadership assessments of women
The UToledo research highlights the continuing bias in leadership assessments of women and explores the contradictions between the perception and the reality of women’s leadership.
Do I buy or not?
You have probably often said to yourself: “This time, I will only buy what I need!” But then you still ended up coming home with things that were not on your shopping list. How can you prevent such impulse buying?…
The outsized impacts of rudeness in the workplace
New study finds rudeness can boost negative emotions, narrowing workers’ perceptions and incurring biases in judgment
Wage inequality negatively impacts customer satisfaction and does not improve long-term firm performance
News from the Journal of Marketing
Science on a shoestring
A life in the liberal arts from beginning to end
Forget cash! Credit is key to the survival of busking
Electronic and digital payments are the key for buskers and street performers to survive in a post-COVID world, new RMIT research reveals
Don’t worry, the kids are cool if you cash in on their inheritance
Cash in on the kids’ inheritance and spend up big on the retirement plans – that’s the message coming from the University of South Australia as new research reveals that older people are keen to spend their well-earned savings, rather…
For women workers in India, direct deposit is ‘digital empowerment’
Giving women in India’s Madhya Pradesh state greater digital control over their wages encouraged them to enter the labor force and liberalized their beliefs about working women, concluded a new study co-authored by Yale economists Rohini Pande and Charity Troyer…
Traits of a troll: Research reveals motives of internet trolling
As social media and other online networking sites have grown in usage, so too has trolling – an internet practice in which users intentionally seek to draw others into pointless and, at times, uncivil conversations. New research from Brigham Young…
Increased organizational support for employees’ adoption efforts yields positive benefits
WACO, Texas (June 23, 2021) – When an organization supports its employees who choose to adopt children, the employees, their families, the adopted children and the organization itself experience positive benefits and outcomes, according to new research from Baylor University.…
Study explores how readers at partisan news sites respond to challenging news events
Researchers from Bentley University have been exploring how readers at partisan news sites respond to news events that challenge their worldview. In a forthcoming paper in the journal ACM Transactions on Social Computing , they report results of a study…
Testing several genes can lead to better effect of medicinal products
Most of us have genetic variations that increase the risk of medicinal products not being effective. In order to provide a more effective treatment with fewer side effects, we need to analyse more of these genetic variations. This will provide…
Partisanship guided Americans’ personal safety decisions early in the pandemic
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — What motivated Americans to wear masks and stay socially distanced (or not) at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic? More often than not, it was partisanship, rather than perceived or actual health risk, that drove…
How shadow banks have exploited the COVID-19 crisis
Rather than levelling inequality, as the Great Depression did, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities around the world allowing some wealthy investors to benefit from the crisis and make a fortune on the misfortune of others. During March to December…
There’s a good reason online retailers are investing in physical stores
News from the Journal of Marketing
Study explores how the elderly use smart speaker technology
Researchers from Bentley University, in partnership with Waltham Council on Aging in Massachusetts, and as part of a study funded by the National Science Foundation, have been exploring how the elderly use smart speakers at home. Waltham, a satellite city…
Lies to hide doping in professional sport
Göttingen University sports sociologist analyses false statements from professional cyclists
Smartphone bans in the workplace
For many of us, our smartphone has become our ever-present companion and is usually far more than just a phone. Thanks to the constant availability of online content as well as our reachability through messenger services and social networks via…
Having a strong life purpose eases loneliness of COVID-19 isolation
Those who felt their life was guided by meaningful values or goals were more willing to engage in COVID-19 protective behaviors
Study: A quarter of adults don’t want children — and they’re still happy
Parenting is one of life’s greatest joys, right? Not for everyone. New research from Michigan State University psychologists examines characteristics and satisfaction of adults who don’t want children. As more people acknowledge they simply don’t want to have kids, Jennifer…
Financial distress similar, or greater, for patients with heart disease compared to cancer
Financial toxicity highest in patients with both cancer and heart disease
Analysis: Chile’s transition to democracy slow, incomplete, fueled by social movements
A new article analyzes Chile’s transition in 1990 from dictatorship to democracy, the nature of democracy between 1990 and 2019, and the appearance of several social movements geared to expanding this democracy. The article, by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University…
Researchers to investigate ‘flexible furlough’ and employers’ attitudes to part-time work
A research project by Cranfield School of Management will seek to determine to what extent so-called ‘flexible furlough’ during the coronavirus pandemic has increased employer openness to part-time working. Over 18 months, academics will investigate to what degree the ‘survival…
Introducing play to higher education reduces stress and forms deeper connection material
Students fostered a more meaningful relationship with instructors when play was introduced
Consumers will pay more for ready-to-eat meals made with fewer ingredients
PULLMAN, Wash. – Most consumers care about the technology and the ingredients used to make their microwavable dinners and other shelf ready meals, according to a new study led by Washington State University researchers. The study found that many consumers…
New research shows link between politics, boredom and breaking public-health rules
People who are more prone to boredom and who are socially conservative are more likely to break public-health rules, according to new psychology research. While previous research demonstrated a connection between being highly prone to boredom and breaking social-distancing rules,…
Study shows how rudeness leads to anchoring, including in medical diagnoses
Have you ever been cut off in traffic by another driver, leaving you still seething miles later? Or been interrupted by a colleague in a meeting, and found yourself replaying the event in your head even after you’ve left work…
Three factors may predict college students’ loss of self-control, WVU study finds
The study, ‘Predictors of initial status and change in self-control during the college transition,’ observed 569 first-year students ages 18-19 at five points over the course of the academic year
How different beliefs and attitudes affect college students’ career aspirations
A study published in Career Development Quarterly has looked at whether beliefs and attitudes influence career aspirations of college students with different genders and sexual orientations. Among 1,129 college students at a midwestern urban university, stronger self-efficacy beliefs–or perceptions about…
Persistent Stereotypes Falsely Link Women’s Self-Esteem to Their Sex Lives
New research published in the journal Psychological Science reveals a pervasive but unfounded stereotype: that women (but not men) who engage in casual sex have low self-esteem. This finding was consistent across six separate experiments with nearly 1,500 total participants.…
Nobody’s been studying socially isolated kids — that’s a problem
For years, psychology researchers have treated peer rejection and social network isolation as being somewhat interchangeable when it comes to early adolescence; it was thought that if kids fell into one of those two groups, they fell into the other.…
Cultural, belief system data can inform gray wolf recovery efforts in US
Humans regularly exert a powerful influence on the survival and persistence of species, yet social-science information is used only sporadically in conservation decisions. Researchers at Colorado State University and The Ohio State University have created an index depicting the mix…
Want to Talk About Prenups? Describe Them as Something Else
Prenuptial agreements, or “prenups,” can be difficult to talk about. But a recent study offers insights into how people can discuss this often taboo subject. One approach? Use metaphors. “Many people view prenups as being negative, and argue that they…
Autistic people find it harder to identify anger in facial expressions — new study
Autistic people’s ability to accurately identify facial expressions is affected by the speed at which the expression is produced and its intensity, according to new research at the University of Birmingham. In particular, autistic people tend to be less able…
R&D exploration or exploitation? How firms respond to import competition
Strategic Management Journal studies competition created by import penetration
New study explores link between economic shock and physical inactivity
It’s the first study to examine how job losses during the Great Recession affected levels of physical activity among young adults
How news coverage affects public trust in science
Negative stories without context can undermine confidence in science