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April 26, 2024

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Hey Dave, I've Got an Idea for You: What's the Potential of AI-Led Workshopping?

Apr. 23, 2024 — Sure, ChatGPT can write a poem about your pet in the style of T.S Eliot, but generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have a potentially more useful role to play in idea generation according ...

Active Workstations May Improve Cognitive Performance

Apr. 4, 2024 — A recent study suggests that active workstations incorporating a walking pad, bike, stepper and/or standing desk are successful strategies for reducing sedentary time and improving mental cognition at work without reducing job performance. Extended ...

Suppressing Boredom at Work Hurts Future Productivity, Study Shows

Mar. 28, 2024 — New research shows that trying to stifle boredom at work prolongs its effects and that alternating boring and meaningful tasks helps to prevent the effects of one boring task from spilling over to reduce productivity on ...

Feeling Apathetic? There May Be Hope

Mar. 18, 2024 — A new method that aims to help people develop grit looks ...

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New Sensing Checks for 3D Printed Products Could Overhaul Manufacturing Sector

Apr. 22, 2024 — A sensing technology that can assess the quality of components in fields such as aerospace could transform UK ...

More Sustainability in Global Agricultural Trade

Apr. 18, 2024 — The EU wants to ensure greater sustainability in agricultural trade with the Global South -- with the aim of minimizing the environmental and climate-damaging effects of importing crops such as soya, ...

Pairing Crypto Mining With Green Hydrogen Offers Clean Energy Boost

Mar. 25, 2024 — Pairing cryptocurrency mining -- notable for its outsize consumption of carbon-based fuel -- with green hydrogen could provide the foundation for wider deployment of renewable energy, such as solar ...

When a Team Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts: Tensions Between Individual and Team Wellbeing

Mar. 12, 2024 — Individual wellbeing doesn't always add up to team wellbeing -- but reflection and open communication can ...

Going Top Shelf With AI to Better Track Hockey Data

Mar. 11, 2024 — Researchers got a valuable assist from artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help capture and analyze data from professional hockey games faster and more accurately than ever before, with big ...

Early Retirement Impacts Mental Health of Blue-Collar Women More Than White-Collar Peers

Mar. 5, 2024 — For some, retirement evokes thoughts of slowing down, relaxing, and enjoying more of what life has to offer. For others, ending a regular work ...

Having Self-Control Leads to Power

Mar. 5, 2024 — Out-of-control behavior by CEOs and other powerful people constantly makes headlines -- so much so that some might consider impulsivity a pathway to power. New research finds that having self-control ...

A Mental Process That Leads to Putting Off an Unpleasant Task

Mar. 1, 2024 — Putting off a burdensome task may seem like a universal trait, but new research suggests that people whose negative attitudes tend to dictate their behavior in a range of situations are more likely ...

What Math Tells Us About Social Dilemmas

Feb. 26, 2024 — Human coexistence depends on cooperation. Individuals have different motivations and reasons to collaborate, resulting in social dilemmas, such as the well-known prisoner's dilemma. Scientists now ...

Ag Economists Offer Food for Thought to Improve Baby Formula Supply

Feb. 22, 2024 — Remember the 2022 baby formula crisis? The historic shortage of infant formula that year highlighted the precarious balance between regulation, competition and safety, according to a new study. The ...

Life Goals and Their Changes Drive Success

Apr. 22, 2024 — Though life goals change over time, a study of teen goals indicates that goals of education and high prestige can drive ...

The Biggest Barrier to a Vibrant Second-Hand EV Market? Price

Apr. 19, 2024 — As early adopters of electric vehicles (EVs) trade up for the latest models, the used EV market is beginning to mature in the United States. Yet many potential buyers, particularly low-income ...

How Reflecting on Gratitude Received from Family Can Make You a Better Leader

Apr. 19, 2024 — New research shows that leaders who take the time to reflect on receiving gratitude from family members can enhance their leadership effectiveness in the ...

Economic Wealth May Be Linked With Happiness in China -- If Inequality Is Low

Apr. 10, 2024 — A country's economic prosperity is linked with improved well-being in its residents, according to a new ...

Research Shows Direct Link Between State Income Taxes and Migration

Apr. 3, 2024 — A new study looks at 110 years of income tax history across the U.S. and notes out-migration by wealthy ...

Working Outside the Typical 9-5 in Younger Adulthood May Be Linked With Worse Health Decades Later

Apr. 3, 2024 — The hours you work earlier in life may be associated with worse health years later, according to a new ...

Companies Ignoring Climate Risks Get Punished by Markets, New Study Reveals

Apr. 2, 2024 — Companies that proactively manage climate risks boost their valuations, while those with a passive stance are discounted in the equity market, according to new ...

Making the Future Too Bright: How Wishful Thinking Can Point Us in the Wrong Direction

Mar. 28, 2024 — Everyone indulges in wishful thinking now and again. But when is that most likely to happen and when could it actually be harmful? A new study demonstrates unequivocally that the greater the ...

Job Flexibility and Security Promotes Better Mental Health Among Employees

Mar. 26, 2024 — A new study found that employed adults with greater job flexibility and higher job security were less likely to experience serious psychological distress or anxiety. Greater job flexibility and ...

Earlier Retirement for People With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

Mar. 20, 2024 — Frequent musculoskeletal pain is linked with an increased risk of exiting work and retiring earlier, according to a new ...

Dehydration Is Rampant Among Florida Farm Workers, New Study Shows

Mar. 19, 2024 — Nearly all farm workers who participated in a recent study in Florida were dehydrated at the end of their shifts, and more than half were still dehydrated the following ...

New Study Reveals Unintended Ethical Faultline in Team-Based Reward Systems

Mar. 14, 2024 — Employers who have introduced team-based rewards systems to foster creativity, collaboration, productivity and sales may want to look again at a system that new research shows can create an ...

EU Countries Have Seen a Decade of Progress Towards Their 2030 Sustainable Energy Goal

Feb. 28, 2024 — Countries in the European Union (EU) have made progress over the past decade toward Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), which calls for 'access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and ...

Mindfulness at Work Protects Against Stress and Burnout

Feb. 25, 2024 — A new study has revealed that employees who are more mindful in the digital workplace are better protected against stress, anxiety and overload. Researchers analyzed survey data from 142 ...

Combination of Group Competition and Repeated Interactions Promotes Cooperation

Feb. 22, 2024 — How did cooperative behavior prevail in human evolution? Researchers have challenged two prevailing explanations -- repeated interactions on the one hand or group competition on the other. Instead, ...

Does Russia Stand to Benefit from Climate Change?

Feb. 21, 2024 — There exists a narrative about climate change that says there are winners and losers -- with Russia being one of the countries that stand to benefit from its effects. In a new study, researchers ...

Generating 'Buzz' About New Products Can Influence Their Success

Feb. 20, 2024 — The way companies announce new products or build up hype can often influence their success once those new products hit the market, according to new research. Whether it's an upcoming blockbuster ...

If Your TV Spoke to You, Would You Buy It? Study Finds People Spend More on Some 'Talking Products'

Feb. 20, 2024 — New research used brain scanning technology to understand the effect of advertisements that try to sell products with talking versions of themselves. The work suggests that that anthromorphic ...

Study Shows Background Checks Don't Always Check out

Feb. 15, 2024 — New research shows that background checks for employment, housing and more can be highly ...

Burnout: Identifying People at Risk

Feb. 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new tool that can help identify the early warning signs of ...