Mar. 28, 2024 Everyone indulges in wishful thinking now and again. But when is that most likely to happen and when could it actually be harmful? A new study demonstrates unequivocally that the greater the ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Employers who have introduced team-based rewards systems to foster creativity, collaboration, productivity and sales may want to look again at a system that new research shows can create an ...
Feb. 8, 2024 In a survey involving a total of 2,472 respondents, researchers asked participants about nonpolitical and political moral behavior and nonpolitical and political moral tolerance. They found people ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Having more women in agriculture is associated with greater community well-being, according to researchers. Their work suggests that women farmers approach their operations in ways that positively ...
Oct. 24, 2023 Recent research has found that backers of crowdfunding projects participate, in part, because they enjoy a sense of indirect success and the feeling that they are contributing to something bigger ...
Sep. 25, 2023 Among regretful parents, fear of missing out is a key motivator for having ...
Sep. 25, 2023 Studying prehistoric production processes of birch bark tar using computational modelling reveals what kinds of cognition were required for the materials produced by Neanderthal and early modern ...
Sep. 22, 2023 New research finds fruit flies make decisions based on their expectations about the likelihood of a reward and pinpoints the site in the fly brain where these value adjustments are made, enabling ...
Sep. 14, 2023 When people feel that their resources are scarce -- that they don't have enough money or time to meet their needs -- they often make decisions that favor short-term gains over long-term ...
Aug. 17, 2023 When choosing their behavior in socially difficult situations, anxious people use a less suitable section of the forebrain than people who are not ...
Aug. 7, 2023 A person's own behavior is the primary driver of how they treat others during brief, zero-sum-game competitions, researchers report. Generous people tend to reward generous behavior and selfish ...
Aug. 7, 2023 As we start to edge out of winter, improving our diet and boosting our exercise start to appear on our agenda. But, when it comes to encouraging a healthier lifestyle, it may surprise you that ...
July 19, 2023 New research has determined that enjoying a tasting at a winery goes well beyond the sip. Scientists conducts research in the area of consumer behavior and branding with a special focus on luxury ...
July 18, 2023 Groundbreaking research is shifting the understanding of human decision-making processes by highlighting the importance of goal-oriented ...
July 13, 2023 A new study has found that aggression is not always the product of poor self-control but, instead, often can be the product of successful self-control in order to inflict greater ...
June 29, 2023 New research shows consumers' concerns about privacy when trying on clothing virtually can be reduced by making the technology versatile and easy to ...
June 27, 2023 A new study has uncovered the word properties that make slogans effective, as the researchers found that the attributes that make a slogan easier to process lead to it being more likeable but less ...
June 21, 2023 Social influence from phone communications is significant, reaching as far as four degrees of separation from the original caller, according to a new ...
June 7, 2023 'Meaning of manual labor' causes consumers to reject autonomous ...
May 26, 2023 Researchers have developed 'Dynamic Prospect Theory,' which integrates the most popular model in behavioral economics -- prospect theory and a well-established model from neuroscience -- ...