News tagged with social judgement
Using live worms as bait: Voters swayed by interactive 'worm' graph during election debate
Research from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Bristol calls into question people's ability to form their own judgements about their preferred election candidate after finding voters could be heavily ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Eye-witness identification may be attributed to bias
For the first time, eye-witness identifications are to be studied to determine if people avoid pointing the finger at someone they like in a police line-up.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Brain takes just 200 milliseconds to interpret facial expressions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Glasgow have discovered that it takes the brain just 200 milliseconds to gather most of the information it needs from a facial expression to determine a person’s ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
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Women easier to read after all
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by a University of Glasgow psychologist, examining whether personality is related to facial appearance, has found that women’s faces are easier to read than men.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 11, 2009 |
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New findings highlight the benefit of exercise ECGs just as they are being scrapped
In the UK, the exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most common initial test for the evaluation of stable chest pain and has been used widely for almost half a century. However, recent NICE guidelines recommend that it ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Obama asks Supreme Court to rule on health care
President Barack Obama's administration Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to uphold his historic health care law, likely sparking an explosive legal showdown in the heat of the 2012 election.
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's test developed at Cambridge to be trialled by GPs
Cambridge Cognition, a spin-out of the University, today announced its plans to launch the GP version of their memory test to aid early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. The company is based on ...
Sep 08, 2011 |
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School blogs: A direct line to the quiet kids in class
Every day, school students are required to answer questions, solve problems and work in groups. This kind of upfront engagement is challenging for shy students, who are now using blogs to have their voices heard in the classroom.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Culture shift needed to address sickness absence in police service
A major culture shift is needed to address the problems of long term sickness absence in the police service, says an expert in the British Medical Journal today.
Apr 20, 2011 |
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People like us: why some middle class families opt for the local comp
(PhysOrg.com) -- A book co-authored by a UWE academic delves into the assumptions and motivations of liberal parents in making decisions about secondary schools.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Research challenges treatment of young criminals
Research by a Murdoch University academic is challenging the way young people accused of serious crimes in the United States are treated.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Experimental philosophy opens new avenues into old questions
Philosophers have argued for centuries, millennia actually, about whether our lives are guided by our own free will or are predetermined as the result of a continuous chain of events over which we have no control.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Judging couples' chemistry influenced by serotonin
(PhysOrg.com) -- The judgements we make about the intimacy of other couples’ relationships are influenced by the brain chemical serotonin, an Oxford University study has found.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Google -- an engine of knowledge creation?
Search engines like Google have become part of everyday life, not least in the academic context. But if knowledge is power, then search engines themselves are gaining ground as power nodes in their own right. Academic users ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 26, 2010 |
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