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Scorekeeping of past favors isn't, however, a factor While exchanging favors with others, humans tend to think in terms of tit-for-tat, an assumption easily extended to other animals. As a result, reciprocity is often viewed as a cognitive feat requiring memory, perhaps even calculation. But what if the process is simpler, not only in other animals but in humans as well? Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have determined monkeys may gain the...
NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine, in collaboration with NYSE Euronext, Future 500, and the Global Reporting Initiative have teamed up to announce that the annual COMMIT!Forum will be held October 2-3, 2012 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The COMMIT!Forum brings together more than 700 chief executives, corporate responsibility and sustainability officers, policy makers, thought leaders, and academics working to redefine...
FAIRFIELD, N.J., Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Businesswomen's Association is thrilled to announce the speakers and topics for the 13 workshops to be presented at the 2012 HBA Leadership Conference to be held November 7- 9 at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Florida. With the theme of "Where Leadership Paths Converge," this is a conference that only the HBA can deliver with top speakers, inspiring leadership stories, actionable skill development and...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate, which requires all health insurance plans to cover contraceptives, abortion-causing drugs including Plan B and Ella, and sterilization takes effect today, August 1. Organizations that refuse to comply could be fined enormous amounts of money, as much as $100 per day per employee. Institutions that meet "safe haven" qualifications (including being a religious non-profit...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Give attention to people who are talking. Wait in line to show courtesy to the person in front. These are just a few of the social norms that are observed on a daily basis. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology recently set out to better understand how social norms are acquired. Social norms are based off of experiences with other people; an individual will mimic the way other people do things and...
Gloria Steinem, the iconic leader of the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for the 2013 WTS Annual Conference in Philadelphia. Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 19, 2012 Gloria Steinem, the iconic leader of the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for the 2013 annual conference of WTS International, the association for the professional advancement of women in...
HOUSTON, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an act of civil disobedience that harkens back to the civil rights movement, 15 activists risked arrest today to protest their employers' misconduct, adding to the growing divide between the 1% and the rest of us. According to a Fox news poll in Houston released last night, 63 percent of Houstonians believe janitors should be paid more for their work. "The struggle for economic justice led by janitors in Houston is deplorable,"...
LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Palm Center director Aaron Belkin argues in a new Time Magazine interview that sexual violence is endemic to U.S. military culture, and that even the thoughtful prevention programming may fail to solve the problem. The interview is based on Belkin's new book Bring Me Men which was published last week. For more information and a free copy of the first chapter, please visit aaronbelkin.org. The Palm Center is committed to sponsoring...
Researchers at UCL and Harvard have found that we punish cheats only when they end up better off than us, in a study that challenges the notion that punishment is motivated by revenge. Published today in the journal Biology Letters, the research shows that victims of cheating compare their own payoffs with those of partners when making punishment decisions. "Punishment is a costly behaviour which is often aimed at individuals that cheat during social interactions," said Dr Nichola...
The volume of a small brain region influences one's predisposition for altruistic behavior. Researchers from the University of Zurich show that people who behave more altruistically than others have more gray matter at the junction between the parietal and temporal lobe, thus showing for the first time that there is a connection between brain anatomy, brain activity and altruistic behavior. Why are some people very selfish and others very altruistic? Previous studies indicated that social...
