New Curtin research has shed light on why people adopt social norms or conventions, such as hand shaking versus fist bumping, walking on the left or right side of a footpath, or using metric or imperial measurements, by employing ...
Social Sciences
Sep 29, 2021
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Women's ability to make decisions about their own health increased in most sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries in the early years of the 21st century, but the picture varied greatly across the region, according to new research ...
Social Sciences
Sep 13, 2021
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A new study from North Carolina State University suggests textbook wording that portrays climate change information as uncertain can influence how middle and high school students feel about the information, even for students ...
Education
Sep 10, 2021
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As wildfires become commonplace in the western U.S. and around the world, checking the daily air quality warning has become as routine as checking the weather. But what people do with that data—whether it drives them to ...
Environment
Aug 30, 2021
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Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, HEC Montréal, and University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that performs a meta-analysis of extant research on social ...
Social Sciences
Aug 6, 2021
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When making decisions about what to do with their romantic relationships, people are typically inclined to move relationships forward rather than end them, according to a new paper by Western's Samantha Joel.
Social Sciences
Aug 5, 2021
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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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People contribute only very little to climate protection, because they underestimate the willingness of others to contribute. This is the central result of a new study by the behavioral economists Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, ...
Environment
Jul 9, 2021
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For many of us, our smartphone has become our ever-present companion and is usually far more than just a phone. Thanks to the constant availability of online content as well as our reachability through messenger services ...
Economics & Business
Jun 16, 2021
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In cultures that place a high value on conventional gender norms, particularly those that prize men as the breadwinners in a family, their unemployment plays an outsized role in whether a romantic relationship ultimately ...
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2021
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