What's in a tweet? From gender to education, the words used on social media carry impressions to others. Using publicly available tweets, social psychologists and computer scientists from the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center, Germany, and Australia are...
Let's say you've just found a nice jacket in a store and are deciding whether to buy it. It's a little pricey, so should you wait and hope it goes on sale in the future? Perhaps. Then again, the...
Hands-free is just as distracting as hand-held phones while driving -- University of Sussex research. Credit: University of Sussex
Driving while talking on a hands-free phone can be just as distracting as talking on a hand-held mobile phone, psychologists at...
Every fourth employee regards promises made by the company they work for as having been broken and every third is not satisfied with their relationship to their superior and with their co-workers. This is shown by the current results...
A large national Norwegian study shows that workaholism frequently co-occurs with ADHD, OCD, anxiety, and depression.
Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have examined the associations between workaholism and psychiatric disorders among 16,426 working adults.
"Workaholics scored higher on...
Milgram experiment tests people's willingness to deliverer electric shocks to another person when encouraged by an experimenter.Image Credit:Flickr/Ape Lad
The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and the answer, according to the results of this...
Liam Satchell with a participant.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Portsmouth
The way people walk can give clues to how aggressive they are, a new exploratory study from the University of Portsmouth has found.
The researchers from the Department of Psychology...
The fluctuations of your heartbeat may affect your wisdom, according to new research from the University of Waterloo.
The study suggests that heart rate variation and thinking process work together to enable wise reasoning about complex social issues. The work...
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When it comes to setting organizational and personal goals, making a backup plan has been seen as a sensible way to deal with uncertainty -- to be prepared if things don't go as expected.
However, new...
Wolves are at least as tolerant and socially attentive as dogs.
Credit: Wolf Science Center
Dogs are man's best friend and partner. The origins of this dog-human relationship were subject of a study by behavioural scientists from the Messerli Research Institute...
Flexitime and having autonomy over working hours -- known as schedule control -- impacts differently on men and women and may increase the gender pay gap.
That's the conclusion of new research co-led by the University of Kent that shows...
