Consumers assume their risk of getting a serious illness is higher when medications are cheaper because they believe that prices for life-saving products are based on need and not profit, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. "When consumers see lower prices for a...
Caregivers view elderly consumers as "old" when they can no longer perform everyday consumption activities on their own regardless of their actual age, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research...
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The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series reports that scientists have discovered a plausible way to manipulate the populations of mostly beneficial microbes in "purified" drinking water to potentially benefit...
Consumers are more likely to change their behavior if they voluntarily commit to changing rather than being told what to do, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. So carefully nudge them along if you're trying to encourage more eco-friendly behavior. "Commitment promotes...
As with many concerned consumers, a team of University of Oklahoma researchers wondered if the green color sometimes seen in bacon is, in fact, harmful to human health. Recently, these OU scientists took an important first step in answering this question by determining the structure of the...
In a study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition[i], researchers compared risk factors for heart disease, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome of nut consumers versus those who did not consume nuts. Tree nut (almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans...
Fish has long been touted*as a*beneficial brain food, though there hasn't ever actually been a conclusive link established between the consumption of marine life and the size, efficacy, or health of your gray matter--until now. According to a new study by researchers at the University...
The news coverage of the deadly EHEC bacteria outbreak in Europe came as a bombshell. Ghent University (Belgium) examined 6132 reactions of Belgian newspaper readers after reading the first news reports. As expected, people are scared and worried, but governmental trust decreases fear and leads...
I have taken a job as an assistant manager for a local healthcare agency for disable people. There are 8 people, living in house setting. They have to be out atleast 6 times a month for recreation purposes. Money is limited as well as their movements. Some of them are on the wheel chairs...
region. The economist needs to? an economist is interested in studying the incomes of consumers in a particular region. The economist needs to know how large a sample should be taken so that 90% confidence interval for their mean income with error of $500 can be constructed. If the standard...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says Vigor-25, a product marketed as a natural dietary supplement to enhance male sexual performance, should not be purchased or used because it contains sildenafil, the active ingredient in the prescription drug Viagra. Sildenafil may interact with...
The 3D revolution. Companies like Sony and pretty much every vendor who attended IFA the other day want it to happen yesterday. Consumers? Interested—just not to the point where they're willing to put down any coin just yet. More »
Kindle's wireless delivery and content is now in a 21 percent smaller and 15 percent lighter design, with better contrast, faster page turns, up to one month of battery life, double the storage, and available to New Zealand users.