Whether we are consciously aware of it or not, we negotiate in every aspect of our daily lives—whether it be persuading a child to eat its vegetables, haggling over a property price, or discussing the terms of a job offer. ...
Environment
Nov 8, 2021
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Individual climate actions are an essential pillar for achieving the climate change mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recognizes the importance of individual ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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Journal ranking is widely used in academic circles to evaluate an academic journal's impact and quality. Journal rankings are intended to reflect the place of a journal within its field, the relative difficulty of being published ...
Other
Sep 6, 2021
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As wildfires become commonplace in the western U.S. and around the world, checking the daily air quality warning has become as routine as checking the weather. But what people do with that data—whether it drives them to ...
Environment
Aug 30, 2021
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Over the last three decades, the United States prison population has exploded from 300,000 to more than 2 million. More than 1.1 million are African American men—the vast number of whom have returned within one to three ...
Social Sciences
Feb 2, 2021
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Drawing on animal-foraging theory, a new model predicts psychological factors that may lead to panic buying during times of crisis. The model is largely supported by real-world data from the COVID-19 pandemic. Richard Bentall ...
Social Sciences
Jan 29, 2021
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The white of paper and the white of a monitor can be precisely the same color values, yet they appear fundamentally different. That disparity may not lie in the mode of display, but rather in how the colors are constructed, ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 7, 2020
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Living organisms aren't the only things that evolve over time. Cultural practices change, too, and in recent years social scientists have taken a keen interest in understanding this cultural evolution. Much research has focused ...
Evolution
Oct 27, 2020
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The brain can be untrustworthy when it comes to deciphering fake news, and especially when headlines are repeated, presented with photos, or generally easy to imagine, experts from The Australia National University (ANU) ...
Social Sciences
Sep 18, 2020
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Japan's government should set up special programs to teach financial literacy in schools and through the media, according to researchers who carried out a detailed study of the causes of low levels of ability in handling ...
Economics & Business
Jan 24, 2020
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