attitudes

A new study found that older individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were 30% more likely to recover normal cognition if they harbored positive beliefs about aging, compared to those with negative beliefs, even accelerating their recovery by up to two years.Research conducted by the Yale School of Public Health discovered that elderly individuals suffering from mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a prevalent form of memory loss, had a 30% higher chance of recovering their normal cognitive abilities if they held…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Reading about climate-induced immigration prompted negative, nativist attitudes among people toward the affected migrants—an unintended, perhaps even paradoxical effect of many delivering the original messages, according to researchers at the University of Michigan and elsewhere. The findings, the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain As of 2021 it is estimated that world-wide the number of refugees and asylum-seekers is over 31 million. While academics and researchers have been attempting to capture global and domestic attitudes towards these vulnerable groups, many of these studies will report biased findings and influence public opinion and policy. That is why researchers surveying socially charged topics such as immigration…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Parental leave for fathers can decrease sexist attitudes and gender bias, according to new research from Rice University, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich. "Fathers' Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes" will appear in an upcoming edition of the American…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Recent debates around transgender people and sexual diversity have been marked by essentialism, a profoundly conservative mindset with deep links to religious and metaphysical dogmatism. It is a stance through which conservative thinkers seek certainty in a world of change and fluidity. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers, publishing in the International Journal of Green Economics, have investigated the many factors that affect consumer attitudes and buying habits when it comes to organic food products. Mohd Farhan of the Mittal School of Business in Punjab, India, suggests that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led many consumers to become more aware of how the nutritional quality of the food they…

Credit: Ruslan Lytvyn/Shutterstock Thousands of women have voluntarily joined Ukraine's armed forces since 2014, when Russia's occupation of Crimea and territories in eastern Ukraine began. Over the past nine years, the number of women serving in the Ukrainian military has more than doubled, with another wave of women joining after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. …

Researchers survey why some people hold strong attitudes to science whilst others are more neutral.Survey of over 2,000 adults in the UK identifies potential pitfalls of science communication.Why do people hold highly variable attitudes towards well-evidenced science? For many years researchers focused on what people know about science, thinking that “to know science is to love it.” But do people who think they know science actually know science? A new study published on January 24th in the open access journal PLOS…

Five Profiles of Attitudinal responses to Ambivalence and their Marginal Means of SNS Use Patterns (z-scores for ease of comparison). Credit: Information Systems Journal (2022). DOI: 10.1111/isj.12407 What's your relationship status with social media? I love it.I hate it.It's complicated! Social media will always draw from a base…

Organizations should strive to create an environment where members are encouraged to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses. Credit: Shutterstock If you work for an organization that believes diversity can increase organizational performance and employee well-being, we have a secret to share with you: despite what is commonly espoused about diversity, very few organizations have actually achieved benefits through…