News tagged with moralists
Moralists have the last laugh
Over-fishing, tax evasion, freeriding: the Tragedy of the Commons happens again and again. A computer model now offers new insights into the way our society functions.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 11, 2010 |
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Key lessons from history on alcohol taxes
Steep rises in taxes on alcohol do not necessarily reduce consumption, according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) into the history of intoxicants in 16th and 17th England.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 01, 2012 |
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Statistcal Physics Offers Insight Into Moral Behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems a little strange for statistical physicists to consider questions of morality in behavior. However, that is is just what a study at ETH in Zurich, Switzeralnd, is doing. Led by Dirk Helbing, the ...
May 06, 2010 |
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Tweens sexual activity delayed by theory-based abstinence-only program
A new study weighs in on the controversy over sex education, finding that an abstinence-only intervention for pre-teens was more successful in delaying the onset of sexual activity than a health-promotion control intervention. ...
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Hummer owners claim moral high ground to excuse overconsumption
Hummer drivers believe they are defending America's frontier lifestyle against anti-American critics, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Man says he sold kidney in US for $20k
(AP) -- In 2005, a rebellious and sporadically employed Israeli man flew to New York to give up a kidney to save an American businessman. For that, he says he was paid $20,000, which appeared in a brown envelope ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Egalitarian revolution in the Pleistocene?
Although anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are still debating this question, a new study, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, supports the view that the first egalitarian societies may have appeared tens o ...
Biology /
Oct 03, 2008 |
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Democracies with separation of powers less likely to stop using torture
A system of checks and balances in government is usually regarded as a good thing, except when it comes to the probability that a nation will stop its use of government-sanctioned torture, according to a Florida State University ...
Jul 16, 2008 |
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Eighteenth century writings of first gay activist discovered
Excerpts from a 258-year-old book written by what is thought to be the first ever advocate for gay rights have been discovered by a University of Manchester academic. Dr Hal Gladfelder from the School of Arts, Histories and ...
Apr 25, 2007 |
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