People from higher social classes are most likely to find ways to ruin the careers of the scholars who wrote this new study, implies the study: “Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior,” Paul K. Piff [pictured here], Daniel M. Stancato, Stéphane Côté, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Dacher Keltner, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. […]
Month: February 2012
Loveseats at the patent office
Anthony Vitale, of San Rafael, California, US, has recently been granted a US patent for his ‘Contoured Loveseat’. There have been a number of loveseat-like patents over the years, (see list below) but this new one has – according to the inventor – some considerable advantages over previous designs (in patent lingo termed ‘the prior […]
Religion Wards Off Stock Price Crashes, Sort Of
Writing with a clarity that appeals to certain accounting professors, two members of that profession tell how they discovered some sort of possible link between (A) some people being religious in certain ways; and (B) the risk of stock prices crashing for companies that technically have their corporate headquarters in the counties in which those […]
Kids’ brain response to ice cream and a milkshake
How does part of the brain respond when you stuff kids with ice cream over a long period of time and then offer them an ice-cream-filled milkshake? This is the first study to involve a scientist named Burger who investigates that question in the particular way that this study goes about it (Thanks to investigator Gus […]