Online shopping and digital payment options have made shopping easier and more enjoyable—money can be spent almost unnoticeably. These factors predispose people to impulse purchases. A lack of budgeting and cost control ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2024
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Your money, postcode, friends and family can make all the difference to how the criminal system treats you.
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2024
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With a record number of people seeking help for problem gambling through the National Gambling Helpline last year, and the Gambling Commission's new figures suggesting that as many as 1.3 million adults in Great Britain might ...
Social Sciences
Feb 17, 2024
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"It was like walking through the gates of hell." That's what one visitor to a prison told us about their experience. It can be a traumatic and stressful event. Family members of first-time prisoners are most often left in ...
Social Sciences
Feb 1, 2024
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Many companies pay out bonuses at the end of January. Economist David Schindler investigated whether bonuses work in modern work environments, where teams have to solve complex problems together. His main conclusion is bonuses ...
Economics & Business
Jan 16, 2024
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Economics and physics are distinct fields of study, yet some researchers have been bridging the two together to tackle complex economics problems in innovative ways. This resulted in the establishment of an interdisciplinary ...
A recent article from a joint study by the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä and the Department of Education at the University of Helsinki is among the first peer-reviewed scientific ...
Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2023
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Even before the pandemic, university students were at high risk of developing mental health problems. Transitioning to adulthood is already a period of heightened vulnerability, and for students, this can be combined with ...
Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2023
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Alley cropping is the agricultural practice of planting rows, or alleys, of trees in fields of crops. According to a new study by an international, multidisciplinary research team led by the University of Göttingen, this ...
Ecology
Feb 7, 2023
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Ph.D. candidate Shekinah Dare researched which psychological factors contribute to responsible financial behavior and well-being. She wants to use this knowledge to develop interventions to encourage people to manage their ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2022
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