A new study by University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor Nicholas Epley and Ph.D. candidate Juliana Schroeder found that when hypothetical…
It is an extreme example of what neuroscientists term “mental time travel” – the recollection of memories so rich in detail regarding the time and place of an…
“While not surprising,” write the authors in their study published in the journal Preventive Medicine, “this finding is important, as it demonstrates that the…
Although the majority of people doing unpaid work are also gainfully employed, earlier studies mainly focused on the effects of voluntary work on pensioners….
A book has just been published outlining the results from a recently concluded international, VW Foundation-supported study group consisting of researchers…
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has been working in partnership with the University of Hildesheim over the past seven years to establish a new…
As Governments and UN bodies prepare for the World-Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (March 2015), for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG in summer…
As recent work from economists from the University of Luxembourg indicates, the apparent link between income inequality and lower general trust could be…
Initially developed to assist in the siting of new energy infrastructure, the team’s model has a broad range of implications from urban planning to climate…
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that certain symptoms of conduct disorder indicate problems are likely to continue…
Mozart, Bach and Beethoven are all supposed to have had it: “absolute pitch” – the ability to identify and categorize a note without having to rely on any…
Given that some climate change is already unavoidable—as just confirmed by the new IPCC report—investing in empowerment through universal education should be…
High-quality services are possible only when all employees are on an equal footing. Fraunhofer IAO and its close partner the Institute for Human Factors and…
Children and chimpanzees often follow the group when they want to learn something new. But do they actually forego their own preferences in order to fit in…
World population will likely peak at around 9.4 billion around 2070 and then decline to around 9 billion by 2100, according to new population projections from…
At first glance, it would appear that studies on the culture and literature of the Middle Ages have no immediate link to the modern working world. For this…
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