Posted: 28 Feb 2015 05:47 AM PST
Social media has opened up a new digital world for psychology research. Researchers are developing new methods of language analysis, and how social media can be leveraged to study personality, mental and physical health, and cross-cultural differences.
Posted: 28 Feb 2015 05:47 AM PST
Researchers have delved into the effects of experiential purchases, potential negative impacts on abundance, the psychology of lending to friends, and how the wealthy think differently about well-being.
Posted: 26 Feb 2015 07:15 AM PST
The sea-level rise scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) do not necessarily provide the right information for high-risk coastal decision-making and management, according to new research. A commentary warns that the IPCC scenarios are often inappropriate or incomplete for the management of high-risk coastal areas as they exclude the potential for extreme sea-level rises. This missing information is also crucial for a number of policy processes, such as discussions by G7 countries to establish climate insurance policies and allocations of adaptation funding by the Green Climate Funds.
Posted: 25 Feb 2015 12:17 PM PST
The way that monkeys are displayed in the media, such as in human settings and in contact with humans, can have serious effects on the way that the public perceives those species, according to a new study.
Posted: 25 Feb 2015 10:22 AM PST
The National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion was envisioned as a way for grant proposals to be judged not only on their intellectual merit but also on the ability of the proposed research to produce wider societal benefits. A review of proposals in the Division of Environmental Biology reveals that, even with the implementation of this criterion, some broader impacts activities have been under-reported, and reviewers have tended to pay less attention to them than they have to intellectual-merit-related activities.
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