High job demands, stress and job insecurity are among the main reasons why people go to work when they are ill, according to new research by an academic at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The study aims to improve understanding of the key causes of employees going to work when sick...
But how honest you are also can also depend on where you are from. David Hugh-Jones is a researcher at The University of East Anglia. In 2015, he decided to study what honesty looked like in different countries. He created an experiment. He asked people from many different countries to r...
to ignore the very many denunciations of male witch-accomplices made by both the female witches and some of the men they did arrest.3 But why did they choose these men in the first place when so many of the other alleged but unmolested male accomplices were of a similar age and status...
He said that the study showed that people choose to be honest because it is more socially acceptable. He says: “This study shows in a very natural way that our choices about dishonesty are not rational. We do not think in terms of costs and benefits. We think about what we feel comfor...
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Or how, when we were living together in our last year of university and had gone entirely mad from the final few days of dissertation-writing, Anna decided to inflate a plastic bag and put it on her head, with a scrunched-up receipt bouncing around inside. Wait, she said, I know what...
Or how, when we were living together in our last year of university and had gone entirely mad from the final few days of dissertation-writing, Anna decided to inflate a plastic bag and put it on her head, with a scrunched-up receipt bouncing around inside. Wait, she said, I know what...
Why Cryptosystems Fail Ross Anderson University Computer Laboratory Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG Email: rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk Abstract Designers of cryptographic systems are at a disadvantage to most other engineers, in that information on how their sys- tems fail is hard to get: their major...
Critics have accused the company in the past, based on anecdotal evidence, of purposely slowing phones to compel users to upgrade to the latest model. While Apple admitted to the practice on Wednesday, it sought to underscore that it had done so for a purely altruistic reason: to prevent old...
Why should most of us hate spiders when we know deeply how much good they do? Is it because they somehow seem so alien? After all, what other land creatures on earth have eight legs? What other creatures spin silk webs in which to catch and wrap their prey to preserve it for the fut...