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Cash for Weight Loss? Works Better When Employees Compete for Pots of Money
April 1, 2013 — Do cash rewards for healthier habits work? Maybe, says a new study, if you add on one more condition -- peer pressure. A growing number of companies are offering employees an opportunity to boost ... > full storyMore: -
Organic Labels Bias Consumers Perceptions Through the 'Health Halo Effect'
April 1, 2013 — In a new study, researchers show that an organic label can influence much more than health views: perceptions of taste, calories and value can be significantly altered when a food is labeled ... > full story -
How Does Innovation Take Hold in a Community? Math Modeling Can Provide Clues
March 27, 2013 — Mathematical models can be used to study the spread of technological innovations among individuals connected to each other by a network of peer-to-peer influences, such as in a physical community or ... > full story -
Better-Educated Parents Feed Children Fewer Fats and Less Sugar
March 27, 2013 — Almost 15,000 children aged between two and nine years old took part in the study. The level of education of parents has an influence on the frequency with which their children eat foods linked to ... > full story -
Quitting Marshmallow Test Can Be a Rational Decision
March 26, 2013 — A psychological experiment known as "the marshmallow test" has captured the public's imagination as a marker of self control. This test shows how well children can delay gratification, a trait that ... > full story -
Women Make Better Decisions Than Men, Study Suggests
March 26, 2013 — Women's abilities to make fair decisions when competing interests are at stake make them better corporate leaders, researchers have found. The study showed that women are more likely to consider the ... > full story -
Five Year-Olds Who Watch TV for Three or More Hours a Day More Likely to Be Antisocial: But the Risk of This Behaviour Is Very Small
March 25, 2013 — Five year-olds who watch TV for three or more hours a day are increasingly likely to develop antisocial behaviors, such as fighting or stealing by the age of seven, indicates new ... > full story -
Parkinsons' Drug Helps Older People to Make Decisions
March 24, 2013 — A drug widely used to treat Parkinson's disease can help to reverse age-related impairments in decision making in some older people, a new study has ... > full story -
'Networked Minds' Require Fundamentally New Kind of Economics
March 20, 2013 — In their computer simulations of human evolution, scientists have discovered the emergence of the “homo socialis” with “other-regarding” preferences. The results explain some ... > full story -
When It Comes to Innovation, the Customer Isn't Always Right
March 20, 2013 — If a company wants to develop something radically new they shouldn’t listen too much to what the customer wants, according to a study on service ... > full story
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