Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Digital nudges encourage more exercise

Text messages, app alerts and emails—so-called "digital nudges"—are effective at pushing us to do things, even exercise. New University of Minnesota research shows these actions used by corporate wellness programs lead ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Use rewards effectively to boost creativity, study suggests

To boost employees' creativity, managers should consider offering a set of rewards for them to choose from, according to a new study by management experts at Rice, Tulane University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro ...

Medical economics

Health care pros will accept money to violate privacy law

The next crop of health care professionals has a price when it comes to illegally releasing confidential medical information, according to researchers at Florida Atlantic University, Baylor University and the State University ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Genetic variation contributes to individual differences in pleasure

Differences in how our brains respond when we're anticipating a financial reward are due, in part, to genetic differences, according to research with identical and fraternal twins published in Psychological Science, a journal ...

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