People’s energy in the workplace is key to staff retention
A research study has found that people’s energy towards colleagues has a major influence on how likely they are to leave their job voluntarily. The in-depth study was undertaken with IT workers over a...
View ArticleMind-controlled toys: the next generation of Christmas presents?
The next generation of toys could be controlled by the power of the mind, thanks to research by the University of Warwick.
View ArticleKingston University London psychology student presents research at...
Kingston University London psychology student Rose Martin has become the first undergraduate to be awarded the highly-regarded Jane Beattie Memorial Travel Scholarship – enabling her to travel to the...
View ArticleERC Consolidator Grant for Katerina Harvati
Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen (HEP) has successfully applied for a consolidator grant from the European...
View ArticleBioeconomy Scientists – are they innovators?
21/02/2017 — 22/02/2017, Are bioeconomy research teams providing the impact & innovative solutions to the social challenges they are funded to investigate? The CommBeBiz London meeting (21/22...
View ArticleEU Collaborative Economy: A research agenda for policy support
The latest JRC work, puts forward a research agenda to strengthen the scientific evidence base for the development of policies that maximise the benefits and minimise the costs for all the stakeholders...
View ArticleFast Delivery for Christmas? A Study Explains Why We Like It So Much
Ioannis Evangelidis and coauthors, through five lab experiments, find that perceived goal conflict in everyday life causes anxiety and stress, which leads to feel pressed for time. Making us impatient...
View ArticleVuoi mantenerti in salute e mangiare molti dolci? Pagherai di più per le...
Ioannis Evangelidis e coautori, attraverso cinque esperimenti di laboratorio, mostrano che la percezione di conflitto tra obiettivi nella vita quotidiana provoca ansia e stress, e questi portano a...
View ArticleGender neutral language still a far cry in Nepal technical schools
Communication plays a vital role in modern workplaces and language is one of the tools for the communication. However, gender bias in communications still exists in the workplace and that hinders the...
View ArticleCientíficos descubren que nuestro estado psicológico modifica el sabor de los...
Investigadores de la Universidad de Granada y la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina demuestran que alimentos como el café, el chocolate, la cerveza o el zumo de pomelo tienen un sabor más...
View ArticleBetrüger bleiben besser im Gedächtnis
Dass unser Gedächtnis Personen, die Fehlverhalten abseits der Norm zeigen, tatsächlich besonders gut speichert – zumindest dann, wenn sie unserer eigenen Gruppe angehören – haben Psychologen der...
View ArticleHelping pays off: People who care for others live longer
Older people who help and support others live longer. These are the findings of a study published in the journal “Evolution and Human Behavior”, conducted by researchers from the University of Basel,...
View ArticleHelfen lohnt sich: Wer sich um andere kümmert, lebt länger
Ältere Menschen, die andere unterstützen, leben länger. Das belegt eine Studie, die in der Fachzeitschrift «Evolution and Human Behavior» erschienen ist. Daran beteiligt waren Forschende der...
View ArticlePrevent Strategy’s psychological techniques not transparent enough, according...
A team led by the University of Warwick has analysed methods including those applied by the British Government as part of its Prevent strategy. They found that there was a lack of transparency in the...
View ArticleEuropa auf dem Prüfstand
Psychologen der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena untersuchen in Zusammenarbeit mit Forschern aus Schweden, Großbritannien, Estland, Tschechien, Portugal, Italien und Griechenland die Einstellungen...
View Article“DiplomaCity”- Learning networks of cities for a sustainable future
“I’m out to prove the obvious,” says best-selling author Parag Khanna, “More connectivity is better.” “The transfer of technology and best practices” through learning networks of cities are “incredibly...
View ArticleThinking with our hands can help find new ways of solving problems, research...
New research by two cognitive psychology experts from Kingston University London is demonstrating how our decision making is heavily influenced by the world around us. Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau,...
View Article“That’s another fight. Big data as a commons”
Activist, writer and policy strategist, David Bollier argues that cities can benefit from co-operatively owning and controlling resources and applying the principles of commons ownership to big data
View ArticleTrue hygge with environmentally-friendly log fire
”Oh´ the weather outside is frightful …but the fire is ..” is it lit correctly? You will only achieve true HYGGE, in the Scandinavian sense, if you follow these five steps towards an environmentally...
View ArticleArt and science students at Kingston University London blend cutting-edge...
London’s iconic Thames Tunnel – the first tunnel ever built under a river – has become the setting for a research project that saw Kingston University London art, geography and geology students join...
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