Witnesses given new tool to fight gang crime
Witnesses to crimes involving gangs or several offenders are much more likely to remember who did what if they record what happened using a new timeline-based approach, according to new research. The first…
Using Facebook makes you feel happier
Using Facebook to look at old photos of yourself and wall posts that you have written could be as soothing as a walk in the park. Almost 90 percent of users access the…
Olympic success linked to emotional intelligence
Olympic athletes could sustain elite performance if their supporting colleagues have a high level of emotional intelligence, according to research. Results from a study of a national sports organisation involved in the London…
Beauty isn’t skin deep after all
Beautiful people are seen as beautiful even if they distort their faces into grimaces of disgust, surprise, fear or anger, according to new research. Unattractive people, on the other hand, are seen as…
‘What if’ a powerful tool for higher education decisions
Universities could be making effective decisions surprisingly easily as they steer through the most challenging times in their history if they adopted a new ‘what if’ method for making decisions. According to new…
Mildly criminal and poor seen as ‘beyond redemption’
Young men from poor backgrounds who have committed petty crimes are the least likely to be trusted or expected to succeed, according to new research. The finding was a surprising result in new…
Jurors serve justice better if they take notes
Jurors are more likely to correctly remember vital information in trials if they are given a structured notebook with headings and other cues to help them record the evidence. According to new research…
Outsourcing effort equals bigger profits
Companies could save millions of pounds if they followed 18 key success factors for outsourcing products and processes, according to researchers at Portsmouth Business School. Outsourcing allows companies to achieve major benefits they…
Many see insurance fraud as only a ‘little dishonest’
People who commit £2bn insurance fraud a year have, for the first time, been profiled in some depth revealing who is most likely to lie to their insurance company. The most common insurance…
Male-female ratio predicts age women have babies
Poor women will start having children younger if there aren’t enough men to go around, according to new research. Rich women will respond to the problem of fewer men by delaying having children,…






