News tagged with willingness

Members of the public lack skills, confidence necessary to save lives with CPR, research shows

Even members of the lay public who have received CPR training are confused about how to perform the lifesaving skill and say they don't have confidence in their ability to do it properly, according to a study from the Perelman ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Babies show sense of fairness, altruism as early as 15 months

A new study presents the first evidence that a basic sense of fairness and altruism appears in infancy. Babies as young as 15 months perceived the difference between equal and unequal distribution of food, and their awareness ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

How fair sanctions are orchestrated in the brain

Civilized human cohabitation requires us to respect elementary social norms. We guarantee compliance with these norms with our willingness to punish norm violations – often even at our own expense. This behavior goes ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Parents feel shock, anxiety and the need to protect children with genital ambiguity

Parents of babies born without clearly defined male or female genitals experience a roller-coaster of emotions, including shock, anxiety and the need to protect their child, according to a study in the October issue of the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research indicates certain probiotics may influence brain functioning

(Medical Xpress) -- It was just last year that a certain company selling a special probiotic enhanced yogurt was ordered by a U.S. court to stop suggesting in its advertisements that it's product had health ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Online consumers willing to pay premium for Net privacy, study says

Online consumers thought to be motivated primarily by savings are, in fact, often willing to pay a premium for purchases from online vendors with clear, protective privacy policies, according to a new study in the current ...

Technology / Internet

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How too many options can impair the ability to make skillful choices

A study by Columbia Business School Professor Sheena Iyengar, S. T. Lee Professor of Business, Management, and Emir Kamenica, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, found the more ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tracing families' escape from poverty

For all the detailed tools developed to study finance in past decades, relatively few scholars have brought those methods to bear on a pressing social question: How do poor people manage their finances?

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Imagine your future self: Will it help you save money?

Why do people choose present consumption over their long-term financial interests? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research finds that consumers have trouble feeling connected to their future selves.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A willingness to be bullied may be inherited

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the behavior of marmots suggests that a willingness to accept some extent of bullying, rather than shying away from interactions that could lead to conflict, may be inherited.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Why do people behave badly? Maybe it's just too easy

Many people say they wouldn't cheat on a test, lie on a job application or refuse to help a person in need.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 74 | with audio podcast

What's a little mold? Why consumers have different freshness standards at home

Why is it acceptable for someone who would never purchase "expired" milk at the store to pour "expired" milk into a cup of coffee at breakfast? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research explores the reasons consumers are mo ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4