Houston, TX, USA. Interviews with 360 American leaders who are evangelical Christians finds enormous variety in how leaders engage their personal faith in workplace decision-making.

The study was the largest of its kind and included CEOs, presidents and chairs of large businesses and their equivalents in government and politics, nonprofits, arts, entertainment, the media and professional athletics. Sociologists D. Michael Lindsay of Rice University and Bradley C. Smith of Princeton Unive

New Orleans, LA, USA. It’s certainly no secret that the oil industry remains deeply embedded in Louisiana culture.

Not only does it employ tens of thousands of people, but it is the economic engine state leaders depend on as they struggle to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Even so, it was something of a surprise earlier this summer when the first round of lawsuits over the BP oil spill reached a federal court in downtown New Orleans.

One of the judges on the court

East Lansing, MI, USA. People tend to pick their spouse based on shared personality traits, which upends the popular belief that married couples do not become more similar over time. A team led by researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) report their findings in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.

“Existing research shows that spouses are more similar than random people,” said Mikhila Humbad, lead investigator. She said “This could reflect spouses’ influen

Washington, DC, USA. A year after suffering record investment losses, many of the nation’s largest public pension plans report double-digit percentage budget gains for the year that ended June 30. Although the improved returns in fiscal 2010 did not wipe out the damage funds suffered in the previous two years, the figures confirm how the financial industry has stabilized and liquidity increased since the Wall Street crisis battered state pension plans.

A review by Stateline of 20 publi

Buffalo, NY, USA. Researchers have found compelling evidence that our best and worst experiences in life are likely to involve interaction with other people and the fulfillment of an urge for social connection, contrary to the implications of previous research that set individual accomplishments as primary.

The research, conducted at the University at Buffalo (UB), is the first study of its kind. The results appear in the forthcoming print issue of Self and Identity. Co-author Shira Gabr