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Older-looking presidential candidates preferred during wartime
Voters prefer older-looking presidents in times of war, according to research published May 23 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 23, 2012 |
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Unconscious racial attitudes playing large role in 2012 presidential vote
After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, many proclaimed that the country had entered a post-racial era in which race was no longer an issue. However, a new large-scale study shows that racial attitudes have already ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 07, 2012 |
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Do consumers prefer brands that appear on their Facebook pages?
You are likely to identify with a brand that advertises alongside your personal information on a Facebook page (especially if you have high self-esteem), according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. The sa ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 13, 2011 |
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White favoritism by Major League umps lowers minority pitcher performance, pay
When it comes to Major League Baseball's pitchers, the more strikes, the better. But what if white umpires call strikes more often for white pitchers than for minority pitchers?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Improving recommendation system algorithms
Recommendation algorithms are a vital part of today’s Web, the basis of the targeted advertisements that account for most commercial sites’ revenues and of services such as Pandora, the Internet ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 08, 2011 |
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Does your name dictate your life choices?
What's in a name? Letters. And psychologists have posited that the letters -- particularly the first letter of our names -- can influence decisions, including whom we marry and where we move. The effect is called "implicit ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Computer could make 2 'Jeopardy!' champs deep blue
(AP) -- The clue: It's the size of 10 refrigerators, has access to the equivalent of 200 million pages of information and knows how to answer in the form of a question. The correct response: "What is the ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Responses shift when changing languages
The language we speak may influence not only our thoughts, but our implicit preferences as well. That's the finding of a study by Harvard psychologists, who found that bilingual individuals’ opinions ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 03, 2010 |
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You may not be able to say how you feel about your race
A new study from the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis looks at how much African Americans and whites favor or prefer their own racial group over the other, how much they identify with ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 07, 2010 |
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When business and pleasure mix
According to Qiong Wang, assistant professor of marketing at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, firms have cultures and personalities that mimic human beings. Firms, like people, have history together. Rooted in this ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Sep 20, 2010 |
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