What types of messages are most persuasive? For example, would you be more likely to buy a TiVo if an ad described it as offering you freedom or if it explained how you could replay sports events? A new study in the Journal ...
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2009
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Days before the events on January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, Chris Conner took a late-night phone call that would change the trajectory of his research at the University of Missouri.
Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2022
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We know young people are "angry, frustrated and scared" about climate change. And they want to do more to stop it.
Environment
Jul 14, 2022
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As the EU-funded MANET project worked with abstract geometric structures it was able to model a range of phenomena as integral curves of vector fields. This allowed the project to shed light on retinal vessels and cortical ...
Mathematics
Sep 25, 2018
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Spin doctoring is deliberate manipulation. I don't think everyday research spin is intended to deceive, though. Mostly it's because researchers want to get attention for their work and so many others do it, it seems normal. ...
Other
Mar 18, 2016
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The topic of preprints for paleontologists has gotten a nice flurry of discussion this week, thanks to a blog post by Liz Martin-Silverstone. Preprints, for those who are not familiar, are non-final and unpublished versions ...
Archaeology
Sep 8, 2015
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(Phys.org)—Thinking like a five-year-old is helping a team of Simon Fraser University students and grads create an app that allows children to create their own books.
Software
Sep 14, 2012
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