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Washington, DC, USA. The respected World Values Survey (WVS) shows happiness increased worldwide from 1981 to 2007.
Did you know that USA ranks number 16 in world happiness? In fact, the United States ranks ahead of more than 80 countries, but below 15 others in happiness levels.
The World Values Survey (WVS) is the work of a global network of social scientists who perform periodic surveys addressing a number of issues. The latest surveys, taken in the United States and in sev... |
July 2th, 2008
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Washington, DC, USA. As fuel and energy costs continue to soar to record highs, a growing number of states are offering more of their public employees compressed workweeks to hold down states’ energy spending and give long-distance commuters some relief from paying high gas prices.
Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.(R), announcing on June 26 the most comprehensive plan in the country, ordered about 17,000 state employees to a 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. work schedule Mondays through Thursdays — a ... |
June 30th, 2008
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Columbia, MO, USA. Virtually anything can be the topic of scientific study, but a male researcher finds that men doing field research on women are limited to certain subjects. So says Robert M. Baum, a professor of religious studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU), who has dealt with this challenging situation in the field for over 30 years.
Most societies restrict the rights of women. One available stragem is to find a compelling rationale that secures female pr... |
June 29th, 2008
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Durham, UK. Some ardent proponents of the sexual and feminist revolutions claimed women would be free to enjoy casual sex just as men always had. Yet, women report negative feelings after one-night stands, suggesting they are not well adapted to fleeting sexual encounters. Findings from a new study appear in Human Nature.
Emotion has a mediating role, providing flexibility (mediation) when when people interact and guide future interactions. Given the known differences between th... |
June 26th, 2008
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Stockholm, Sweden. The attitudes of families and the public exert little impact on adult decisions to have sex with persons of the same or the opposite sex. Instead, findings from the largest study in the world so far point to hereditary factors and individual experiences as the strongest influences on our choice of sexual partners.
The conclusions apply equally well to why people only have sex with persons of the opposite sex as to why we have sex with same-sex partners. Howe... |
June 26th, 2008
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St. Louis, MO, USA. Imagine a bunch of curious Japanese tourists stepping gingerly through the ruins of a once-grand avenue of urban America, gawking at deserted and burned-out hulks of historic buildings, wondering how a great city could have sunken so low.
Eleven years ago, Washington Avenue in St. Louis was declining rapidly, the downtown prospects grim. And the rest of the St. Louis region didn’t seem to care.
So in a 1997 series for the St. Louis Po... |
June 25th, 2008
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Champaign, IL, USA. Women can make inroads into male-dominated management ranks as downsizing companies restructure their scaled-back workforces. John Dencker is surprised because downsizing whittles the job pool available for both men and women, but also shows that firms apparently make an effort to balance gender inequities during staff shakeups.
John Dencker, a sociologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says "It might be that they try to make up fo... |
June 19th, 2008
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Chicago, IL, USA. History reminds us that the powerless can rise up and take action. However, research often states that power leads to action and lack of power leads to inhibition. How do we reconcile these different perspectives? New research suggests that the legitimacy of the power relationship is an important determinant of whether power leads to action.
A research team led in part by Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) sought to determi... |
June 19th, 2008
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Washington, DC, USA. The alarm goes off at five in the morning, we are due at the festival at eight where we will assemble our booth, put up banners and signs, place handouts strategically to be distributed.
The rain the night before prevented us from loading the car, so we spend an hour or so demonstrating how much stuff can fit in an aging Buick. We bring everything we have we think we’ll need, only enough to fill up the day so that the trip back will be somewhat lighter.
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June 18th, 2008
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 | Washington, DC, USA. More than a dozen states would be hard-pressed to provide unemployment benefits if the economy tailspins into a full-blown recession and more workers get pink slips. Michigan, Missouri, New York and Ohio could face the biggest problems since the amount of money in their unemployment insurance reserves already are far below recommended levels while another 14 states could join this group if the job slump deepens.
“There is no cause for panic, but the situation is ... |
June 2th, 2008
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 | Flint, MI, USA. Having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women, according to a University of Michigan (U-M) study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families. For men, the picture is very different: A wife saves men from about an hour of housework a week. The findings are part of a detailed study of housework trends, based on 2005 time-diary data from the federally-funded Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), conducted since 1968 at the U-M Institute for Soc... |
April 11th, 2008
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 | New Haven, CT, USA. Whether you are running for president or looking for a clerical job, you cannot afford to get angry if you are a woman, according to new research. Three recently completed and separate studies explore a phenomenon that may be all-too-familiar to accomplished women and politicians women like New York Senator Hillary Clinton. People accept and even reward men who get angry but largely view women who lose their temper as less competent.
Clinton's presidential campaign h... |
April 5th, 2008
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 | Evanston, IL, USA. Confidence affects decision-making and ultimately a company's earnings. But giving employees positive feedback in the hopes of promoting better decisions sometimes can backfire, suggests new research. Some types of positive feedback actually escalate perceived threats to the ego and increase the need to prove a questionable decision was correct. The research is published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
The research examines how b... |
April 4th, 2008
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 | Eastern Pennsylvania, USA. Scientists at the University of Eastern Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified a disguised retrovirus (CD13) associated with the onset of cross-dressing (transvestism) in young males. Working with a volunteer team from the Institute of Virology of the German Research Center for Environmental Health, Eastern Pennsylvania Scientists show for the first time how CD13 invades not only brain macrophages but also astrocytes.
Retroviruses are infecti... |
March 31th, 2008
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 | Washington, DC, USA. A Colorado surgeon begins a public relations push for an innovative approach to Sex Reconnoiter Surgery (SRS). The transgenders go on the WARPATH. Pope Benedict XVI has a startling HBS revelation. The Church of Scientology begins a serious audit of genitalia. The new Gender Perfect public bathroom debuts amid controversy over its method of waste disposal. In case you missed any of those stories this week, Media Ranger fills you in.
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March 31th, 2008
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