The confidence you feel when making a choice might depend on whether you're thinking concretely or abstractly, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Social Sciences
Jul 20, 2010
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Why do we feel confident about some choices while we question others? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, it's a combination of how easy the choice seems and whether we're thinking concretely or ...
Social Sciences
May 18, 2010
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Research into why people look favorably on a product shows that—as in real life—everything is relative. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, what we think of a product or brand, or how positively ...
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2010
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When employees are rude to one another, it creates a negative impression that affects consumer judgments of the company, according to new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Social Sciences
Feb 17, 2010
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The European Court of Human Rights is "backsliding" by surreptitiously reversing its principles established to protect asylum seekers, a new study says.
Political science
Apr 22, 2024
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Both Republicans and Democrats regarded people with opposing political views as less moral than people in their own party, even when their political opposites acted fairly or kindly toward them, according to experiments my ...
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Feb 1, 2024
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Most public opinion polls correctly predicted the winning candidate in the 2020 U.S. presidential election—but on average, they overestimated the margin by which Democrat Joe Biden would beat Republican incumbent Donald ...
Political science
Nov 18, 2020
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A Maryland university student has pleaded guilty to illegally wiretapping a congressional staffer and putting the conversation on Facebook Live without consent.
Internet
Mar 25, 2019
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Most teenagers have heard a similar admonishment from their parents: "Why don't you get a real job?"
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2018
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Suja Thomas is the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law at Illinois and co-author of the book "Unequal: How America's Courts Undermine Discrimination Law." Thomas spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora ...
Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2017
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