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Even In Hostile Working Environments, Employees Reluctant To Leave Jobs
... among workers reporting hostility in the current position, almost half -- 45 percent of them -- had no definite plans to leave their current job. In addition, 59 percent ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
'Ice That Burns' May Yield Clean, Sustainable Bridge To Global Energy Future
In the future, natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power ...Posted by Kevin Barry -
Androgynous Leaders Mean Increased Innovation
Androgynous leaders, that is, leaders with both masculine and feminine traits, are the ones who best succeed at creating a good climate for innovation, concludes Anne Grethe ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Female Medical Students Underestimate Their Abilities And Males Tend To Overestimate Theirs
Despite performing equally to their male peers in the classroom and the clinic, female medical students consistently report decreased self-confidence and increased anxiety, ...Posted by Leo Romero -
The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave In The Rocks?
ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2008) — What will be the lasting impression made by mankind - 100 million years hence? Jan Zalasiewicz, a lecturer in geology at the University of ...Posted by Pirjo Sundqvist -
Antisocial Behavior May Be Caused By Low Stress Hormone Levels
A link between reduced levels of the 'stress hormone' cortisol and antisocial behaviour in male adolescents has been discovered by a research team at the University of ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Political Views Affect Firms' Corporate Social Responsibility, Study Finds
A new study in The Financial Review establishes a relationship between political beliefs of corporate stakeholders and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of their ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Eating Less Meat And Junk Food Could Cut Fossil Energy Fuel Use Almost In Half
An estimated 19 percent of total energy used in the USA is taken up in the production and supply of food. Currently, this mostly comes from non-renewable energy sources which ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Massive Greenhouse Gases May Be Released As Destruction, Drying Of World Wetlands Worsen
Warming world temperatures are speeding both rates of decomposition of trapped organic material and evaporation, while threatening critical sources of wetlands recharge by ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Political Participation Is Partially Rooted In Genetic Inheritance
The decision to vote is partly genetic, according to a new study published in the American Political Science Review. The research, by James H. Fowler and Christopher T. ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Reducing Greenhouse Gases May Not Be Enough To Slow Climate Change
Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone is publishing a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Majority Of Americans Believe 'Myths' About Health Care Reform, National Survey Finds
Findings from a new national survey of Americans by researchers from Indiana University Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research (CHPPR) and the Indiana ...Posted by Eddie Louis Harris -
Why Saints Sin And Sinners Get Saintly
To many, New York Gov. Eliott Spitzer's fall from grace seemed to make no sense at all. But a new Northwestern University study offers provocative insights that possibly could ...Posted by Leo Romero -
The Healing Power Of Prayer?
Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For ...Posted by Leo Romero -
People Who Wear Rose-colored Glasses See More, Study Shows
A University of Toronto study provides the first direct evidence that our mood literally changes the way our visual system filters our perceptual experience suggesting that ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Easily Grossed Out? You Might Be A Conservative!
Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? Do crawly insects make you cringe or dead bodies make you blanch? ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Staying Together 'For The Sake Of The Kids' Doesn't Necessarily Help Them, Says Study
The research is clear: Adolescents tend to fare better -- academically and behaviorally -- when they live with both biological parents. But when their parents frequently ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Still Irritating After All These Years: Study Of Adult Children And Parents
The majority of parents and adult children experience some tension and aggravation with one another, a new study says. But parents generally are more bothered by the ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Cost of Installed Solar Photovoltaic Systems Drops Significantly Over the Last Decade
A new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the U.S. shows that the average cost of these systems declined significantly from 1998 to 2007, ...Posted by Jim Lang -
Psychologists Shed Light On Origins Of Morality
In everyday language, people sometimes say that immoral behaviours “leave a bad taste in your mouth”. But this may be more than a metaphor according to new scientific ...Posted by Leo Romero
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