Consumers react strongly to their product choices being copied, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. They really dislike it when the copycat is someone similar to them.
Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient humans may have developed a capacity for music and a sense of spirituality linked to music because of the foetal/infant-maternal bond, according to international authority on the origins of music, ...
Other
Jan 31, 2011
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Search engines like Google have become part of everyday life, not least in the academic context. But if knowledge is power, then search engines themselves are gaining ground as power nodes in their own right. Academic users ...
Social Sciences
Nov 26, 2010
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Animals' right to privacy is being denied by makers of television wildlife documentaries according to new research. Dr Brett Mills from the University of East Anglia argues that while wildlife programmes can play a vital ...
Ecology
Apr 29, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the wildly popular National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament tips off this week, University of Georgia professor Billy Hawkins says fans should consider several numbers that tell a ...
Social Sciences
Mar 18, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have studied the residues ...
Archaeology
Jul 21, 2009
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Had a good chat with someone recently? Has a good friend just helped you to do up your home? Then you will be lucky if that person still does that in seven years time. Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst investigated how the context ...
Social Sciences
May 28, 2009
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In sub-Saharan Africa, the issue of infertility is often obscured by the region's high fertility rates. Though problematic, particularly for women, little is known about how different regions understand and respond to infertility ...
Social Sciences
Apr 23, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds." The ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 24, 2009
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Jokes are not merely a source of popular enjoyment and creativity; they also provide insights into how societies work and what people think. Humor is so powerful it can help shape geopolitical views worldwide, according to ...
Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2009
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