The work of professor Richard Sparks is both timeless and timely. On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of criminology at KU Leuven, the Faculty of Law presented him with an honorary […]
The work of professor Richard Sparks is both timeless and timely. On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of criminology at KU Leuven, the Faculty of Law presented him with an honorary […]
Why inequality exists, financial markets crash, polarization arises and health epidemics spread can be explained by a powerful social structure: the human network. o understand why people succeed or fail, look at […]
Anthropologists at the University of Oxford have discovered what they believe to be seven universal moral rules. The rules: help your family, help your group, return favours, be brave, defer to superiors, […]
A new paper finds empty houses and longer commutes are two of the consequences of a planning-induced housing shortage in Britain that has been brewing for decades. King Henry VIII’s Mound in […]
Overweight mothers are more likely than those classed as being of a healthy weight to stop breastfeeding in the first week after having a baby and less likely to continue past four […]
The number of adults aged 85 plus needing round-the-clock care in England will almost double to 446,000 over the next 20 years, according to new research from the LSE-led MODEM study, published in the […]
If you think you’re helping someone by lying, you may want to think again. Telling a lie in order to help or protect someone—a practice known as prosocial lying—backfires if the person […]
Ena Inesi explains the perverse effects of exceptional past performance on women’s careers. A 2018 book on how women can achieve greater career success encourages them to claim recognition for their accomplishments. […]
People who regularly watch television shows that glamourise fame, luxury, and the accumulation of wealth – like The Apprentice and Made in Chelsea -are potentially more likely to be in favour of […]
Employees who feel able to speak openly about their depression with their managers are more productive at work than employees whose managers avoid talking to them about their condition, says new research […]
New Stanford research shows that sentences that frame one gender as the standard for the other can unintentionally perpetuate biases. While saying “girls are as good as boys at math” is meant […]
Quitting Facebook for five days was associated with a drop in the stress hormone cortisol, according to a preliminary study published in the Journal of Social Psychology. “I have been a Facebook user […]
Adult children who return to live with their parents, the so-called ‘boomerang generation’, cause a significant decline in parents’ quality of life and well-being, according to new LSE research. The cost of […]
Contrary to conventional wisdom, people tend to wind down rather than whip themselves into a frenzy while browsing Facebook and Twitter, according to a prize-winning dissertation by a newly minted Ph.D. from […]