News tagged with choice
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Female mammals follow their noses to the right mates
Female birds often choose their mates based on fancy feathers. Female mammals, on the other hand, may be more likely to follow their noses to the right mate. That's one conclusion of Cambridge zoologist Tim Clutton-Brock ...
Mar 17, 2009 |
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'Thinking like a trader' may diminish emotional reaction and aversion to loss
The late 1990s saw the rise not only of the NASDAQ, the Dow, and the S & P 500, but also of amateur traders—individuals not formally trained to work in the unpredictable world of the stock market—to complement seasoned professionals. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Foreign Affairs goes online
Foreign Affairs, the magazine which has hosted articles about international affairs by US foreign policy luminaries for decades, is going online.
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Consumers stop buying as number of options increase
It is a common belief that having more options is better, and that people tend to go to stores that provide them with more choices. However, a new study in the journal Psychology & Marketing reveals that when people cannot ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Independent Grocery Stores Boost Urban Fruit, Veggie Consumption
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from Detroit finds that the food environment of a neighborhood — the presence or absence of grocery stores, food markets and convenience stores and whether they sell fresh produce — influences ...
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Small steps can improve your health and wealth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as a team can achieve more than an individual, so can resolutions to improve your health and to improve your finances reinforce each other, say Montana State University Extension specialists.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 04, 2009 |
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It's in his smell
A female moth selects a mate based on the scent of his pheromones. An analysis of the pheromones used by the European Corn Borer (ECB, Ostrinia nubilalis), featured in the open access journal BMC Biology, ...
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Animals successfully re-learn smell of kin after hibernation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Animals can re-establish their use of smell to detect siblings, even following an interruption such as prolonged hibernation, research at the University of Chicago on ground squirrels shows.
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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Internal choices are weaker than those dictated by the outside world
The underlying sense of being in control of our own actions is challenged by new research from UCL (University College London) which demonstrates that the choices we make internally are weak and easily overridden compared ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Color boosts brain performance and receptivity to advertising, depending on task
A new University of British Columbia study reconciles a debate that has long raged among marketers and psychologists: What colour most improves brain performance and receptivity to advertising, red or blue?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Shaken self-confidence? Certain products and activities can fix it
Someone who has momentarily lost confidence in her intelligence is more likely to purchase a pen than a candy bar, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. The pen helps restore her belief in herself as an ...
Jan 26, 2009 |
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New Insight Into How Bees See
New research from Monash University bee researcher Adrian Dyer could lead to improved artificial intelligence systems and computer programs for facial recognition.
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Jan 23, 2009 |
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Eating habits and exercise behaviors in children can deteriorate early
As children transition from preschool-age to school-age, they may develop eating habits and leisure-time patterns that may not meet current recommendations and may contribute to childhood obesity. In a study published in ...
Jan 09, 2009 |
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Our unconscious brain makes the best decisions possible
Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that the human brain—once thought to be a seriously flawed decision maker—is actually hard-wired to allow us to make the best decisions possible with the information we ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 24, 2008 |
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