Psychology

In Business, Relationship Often Counts More Than Discounts

Cordiality and mutually beneficial arrangements can be more important than hard-negotiated deals when it comes to cementing strong working relationships among supply chain partners, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Manag ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2008 - 1:00pm

Taking A Shower Improves Moral Judgment- Study

The next time you have to make a difficult moral decision, you might think twice about mulling it over in the bath or shower.   New research in Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of mo ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2008 - 12:09pm

Dominant Or Submissive? Car Grills Tell Us

No one needs to tell Disney, who brought the likes of Herbie the Love Bug and Lightning McQueen to the big screen, that cars have personalities.   A study co-authored by a Florida State University researcher says it has confirmed through a complex statisti ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2010 - 7:28pm

The Psychology Of Sustainable Food

Are consumers under too much pressure to be healthy? Has the global financial crisis sidelined the promotion of sustainable food? And how much do consumers actually know or care about the subject? ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2009 - 3:06pm

Empty Nest May Benefit Marriage, Says Study

The phrase "empty nest" can conjure up images of sad and lonely parents sitting at home, twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their children to call or visit. However, a new study, reported in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association fo ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2009 - 3:06pm

Happiness Is Contagious- And A Collective Rather Than Individual Thing

If you're happy and you know it, thank your friends—and their friends. And while you're at it, their friends' friends. But if you're sad, hold the blame. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Dieg ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2008 - 9:51am

The Sociology Of Prayer

In times of economic distress and plenty, ninety percent of Americans pray, more than half of us once a day or more. We pray for big things—to stay healthy, to keep our jobs, and to strengthen our relationships. And we pray for small things—to find parking ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2008 - 11:05am

Older Men Dating Younger Women Gets A Science Study- And We Get To Make Fun Of It

Middle-aged men want younger women and don't mind talking about their own positive qualities to get them, according to research at Gothenburg University and Oxford University that studied 400 matchmaking ads to see how men and women choose partners. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2008 - 11:35am

Red Or Green? The Sex Issue In Skin Color

It's always fun science when we can say researchers from Brown have discovered that men have more red in their skin and women more green- but Michael J. Tarr and graduate student Adrian Nestor say they have discovered this color difference in an analy ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2008 - 10:41am

A Brave New World, Re-revisited

I was astounded to read the news about scientists essentially promoting pills to improve brain function- surely I had read the article wrong, I thought. But no. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Dec 8 2008 - 12:16pm