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  Outdoor Fast Food Ads Could Promote Obesity

  January 31, 2013 — A new study suggests that the more outdoor advertisements promoting fast food and soft drinks there are in a given census tract, the higher the likelihood that the area's residents are ... > full story
• Industrial Relations
  Stress
  Social Psychology
  Consumer Behavior
  Privacy Issues
  Educational Policy
   

  Rude Behavior at Work Is Increasing and Affects the Bottom Line

  January 30, 2013 — Research shows rudeness at work is rampant, and it’s on the rise. In 2011, half of the workers surveyed said they were treated rudely at least once a week - up from a quarter in 1998. New ... > full story
• Economics
  Consumer Behavior
  Funding Policy
  Consumerism
  Alcoholism
  Privacy Issues
   

  New Model to Determine Lifetime Spending

  January 30, 2013 — New research shows new, more effective ways to plan for ... > full story
• Environmental Policy
  Global Warming
  Tinnitus
  Energy and the Environment
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Science
   

  Emission Trading Schemes Limit Green Consumerism

  January 30, 2013 — Schemes that aim to regulate greenhouse gas emissions can limit consumers’ attempts to reduce their carbon ... > full story
• Consumer Behavior
  Behavior
  Economics
  Space Policy
  Funding Policy
  Privacy Issues
   

  Professional Training 'in the Wild' Overrides Laboratory Decision Preferences

  January 29, 2013 — Many simulation-based studies have been conducted, and theories developed, about the behaviors of financial market traders. New work suggests that decision-making research on the behavior of traders ... > full story
• Diabetes
  Nutrition
  Staying Healthy
  Nutrition Research
  Foodborne Illness
  Food Additives
   
  

  When Food 'Porn' Holds No Allure: The Science Behind Satiety

  January 28, 2013 — New research is shedding light on why enticing pictures of food affect us less when we're ... > full story
• Sexual Health
  STD
  Behavior
  HIV and AIDS
  Birth Control
  Public Health
   
  

  Penicillin, Not the Pill, May Have Launched the Sexual Revolution

  January 28, 2013 — The rise in risky, non-traditional sexual relations that marked the swinging '60s and advent of readily available contraception actually began as much as a decade earlier, during the conformist '50s, ... > full story
• Psychology
  Addiction
  Controlled Substances
  Illegal Drugs
  Social Psychology
  Alcoholism
   

  Socially Isolated Rats Are More Vulnerable to Addiction, Report Researchers

  January 23, 2013 — Rats that are socially isolated during a critical period of adolescence are more vulnerable to addiction to amphetamine and alcohol. Amphetamine addiction is also harder to extinguish in the socially ... > full story
• Conflict
  Legal Issues
  Energy Policy
  Government Regulation
  Engineering and Construction
  Justice
   

  Gun Control: Focus on Manufacturers, Not Just Buyers, Study Shows

  January 23, 2013 — As the gun control debate continues, an expert says the focus should be on those who distribute guns, not solely on those who buy ... > full story
• Consumer Behavior
  Scientific Conduct
  Behavior
  Child Psychology
  Psychology
  Social Issues
   

  Forcing Choice May Hamper Decision-Making, Study Finds

  January 23, 2013 — Constraining choice isn't necessarily a good thing when it comes to managers' problem-solving, according to a new Canadian study. Managers tend to pick higher-risk options when forced to choose ... > full story

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