How social media posts could affect credit scores
What does your SAT score mean for your ability to pay off a car loan?
Economics & Business
May 17, 2022
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Thinking about God lowers consumer interest in self-improvement products
Whether it is marketing a tea to sharpen thinking, or sheets that promote sounder sleep, the $10 billion self-help industry has always attracted consumers with products that promise to improve aspects of their bodies and ...
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2022
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Targeted ads isolate and divide us even when they're not political – new research
Five years since the Brexit vote and three since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, we're now familiar with the role that targeted political advertising can play in fomenting polarization. It was revealed in 2018 that Cambridge ...
Social Sciences
Jul 14, 2021
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How well do consumers understand their dairy purchases?
Consumers may have less trust in food processes that they don't understand, and animal-based foods may be subject to more uninformed scrutiny than other foods due to consumers' perception of higher risk. Dairy producers can ...
Economics & Business
Jul 13, 2021
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Algorithm streamlines targeted marketing efforts with unrivaled precision
In today's digital age, more consumer data is being collected than ever before. In turn, consumers are bombarded with advertising that misses the mark for identifying the "right" message to the "right" customer, and fails ...
Economics & Business
Dec 10, 2020
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A circular economy could end waste – at the cost of our privacy
In a circular economy, we wouldn't have any waste or pollution. Instead, everything we make and all our byproducts would be reused or repurposed, helping to end the over-exploitation of our finite resources and damage to ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2020
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Coconut confusion reveals consumer conundrum
Coconut oil production may be more damaging to the environment than palm oil, researchers say.
Environment
Jul 6, 2020
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Surveys reveal significant shifts in consumer behavior during pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered how people shop, how much they buy, the trips they take outside their homes, and the number of tele-activities—like work, medicine and education—that have become commonplace. ...
Social Sciences
Jul 2, 2020
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New economic tracker finds flaws in U.S. recovery plan
Results from a new economic tracker that looks at real-time statistics on consumer spending, jobs, and business revenue suggest that the government's traditional recovery strategies to reverse the downturn triggered by the ...
Economics & Business
Jun 17, 2020
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A tool to provide policymakers with real-time economic data
An interactive tool that uses real-time data to measure the depth of the economic downturn and give evidence of any recovery was launched today by Opportunity Insights, a Harvard-based institute of social scientists and policy ...
Economics & Business
May 8, 2020
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