News tagged with ethical code

Professor examines the complex evolution of human morality

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although the question of what makes humans different from other animals doesn't have a single obvious answer, one seemingly conspicuous human trait is morality. Darwin, in his book The Descent of Man, an ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 428 | with audio podcast feature

Psychology Researchers Recommend Ethical Ban on Torture by Psychologists

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arkansas psychology professor Jeffrey Lohr and colleague David Tolin have documented the history and criticisms of the ethics policy of the American Psychological Association and recommended ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Online ethics and the bloggers' code revealed

Whatever their reason for posting their thoughts online, bloggers have a shared ethical code, according to a recent study published in the journal New Media Society, published by SAGE. Key issues in the blogosphere are te ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Employers feel no love for unscrupulous practice of 'service sweethearting'

A new study led by two Florida State University marketing professors finds that some frontline service employees who are rewarded for hikes in customer loyalty and satisfaction also may engage in "service ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 11

For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life

(AP) -- Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker. For most people, that word means something malicious - shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The price of your soul: How the brain decides whether to 'sell out'

An Emory University neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Oregon's program to improve care for those with advanced illness highlighted in JAMA

Oregon's groundbreaking Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment program (POLST) is featured in the latest edition of the Journal of The American Medical Association. The program, which was created by health care p ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ACP's Ethics Manual examines emerging issues in medical ethics

The American College of Physicians (ACP) has released the sixth edition of its Ethics Manual, published as a supplement to the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, ACP's flagship journal, and available online at www ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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Pions don't want to decay into faster-than-light neutrinos, study finds

When an international collaboration of physicists came up with a result that punched a hole in Einstein's theory of special relativity and couldn't find any mistakes in their work, they asked the world to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (35) | comments 170 | with audio podcast

Non-porn players rush to grab .xxx websites

Colleges, museums and well known groups have rushed to grab online addresses in the ".xxx" domain to prevent porn purveyors from using their names in the Internet's new red light district.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds iPS cells match embryonic stem cells in modeling human disease

(Medical Xpress) -- Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have shown that iPS cells, viewed as a possible alternative to human embryonic stem cells, can mirror the defining defects of a genetic condition — ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A logistics approach to malaria in Africa

The problems of archaic logistics infrastructure, inefficient distribution channels and disruptive black markets must all be addressed urgently if Africa is to cope with the growing problem of malaria, according to a study ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Institute presses for greater use of gene sequencing in medicine

Almost a year after researchers in Wisconsin published a groundbreaking paper describing their use of genetic sequencing to diagnose and treat a 4-year-old boy, a national health agency is shifting its focus to put $416 ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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