Hunter-gatherers in the Philippines who adopt farming work around ten hours a week longer than their forager neighbours, a new study suggests, complicating the idea that agriculture represents progress. The research also ...
Social Sciences
May 20, 2019
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Research suggests that reading on screens is a less effective way to absorb and retain information than reading the old-fashioned way, but why? And when so many of us are noticing shortening attention spans, how do we learn ...
Social Sciences
Feb 6, 2024
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Researchers at the University of Surrey and the University of Milano-Bicocca have partnered with SAGA Space Architects to investigate the psychological impact of social isolation in harsh environments, such as on the moon. ...
Space Exploration
Apr 5, 2022
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Nothing ruins a potentially fun event like putting it on your calendar. In a series of studies, researchers found that scheduling a leisure activity like seeing a movie or taking a coffee break led people to anticipate less ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2016
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Bank employees are not more dishonest than employees in other industries. However, the business culture in the banking industry implicitly favors dishonest behavior, as an economic study at the University of Zurich indicates. ...
Economics & Business
Nov 19, 2014
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Happiness inequality in the U.S. has decreased since the 1970s, according to research published this month in the Journal of Legal Studies.
Other
Jan 26, 2009
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In an ideal workplace, organizations should strive to protect employees from abusive supervisors, but for employees who experience this type of intense workplace stress, new research from the University at Buffalo School ...
Social Sciences
Nov 14, 2023
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Employers should consider more ways to facilitate time off for the employees who are least likely to take it—workaholics. That's the conclusion of counseling experts who conducted a workaholism study published in The Career ...
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2023
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College students face different, often co-occurring barriers that may prevent them from participating in healthy leisure activities, like exercising or reading for pleasure, according to new research led by Penn State College ...
Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2023
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More than 80% of women in England and Wales will become mothers at some point during their working lives, according to OECD figures. Most of these women will have two children around two or three years apart, spending at ...
Social Sciences
Jul 5, 2023
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