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Promoting low sugar drinks on touch screen menus encourages customers to make healthier choices
Fast food diners can be encouraged to make healthier choices by changing the position of items on the menu, a 果冻传媒 Business School study has found.
鈥楻emainers鈥 suffered mental distress equivalent to migraine after Brexit vote
果冻传媒 Business School research has found evidence that 鈥楻emainers鈥 suffered 鈥渕ental distress鈥 in the aftermath of the UK鈥檚 vote to leave the European Union – equivalent to a chronic migrane.
Peacekeeping missions can actually increase criminal violence, research finds
The presence of UN peacekeeping missions can inadvertently make criminal violence worse by providing the security necessary for organised crime to flourish, and creating a 鈥榩eacekeeping economy鈥 which criminals can exploit, finds a new study by Dr Jessica di Salvatore of the 果冻传媒.
果冻传媒 Law researcher responds to Independent Commission for Countering Extremism call for 鈥渘ational conversation on extremism.鈥
Dr Alison Struthers (果冻传媒 Law) is co-author of one of eight peer-reviewed academic papers published today (31) by the Independent Commission for Countering Extremism. Dr Struthers reviews the effectiveness of teaching Fundamental British Values in schools and proposes an alternative framework for values education.
Neurocognitive basis for free will set out for the first time
Do human beings genuinely have free will? Philosophers and theologians have wrestled with this question for centuries and have set out the 鈥榙esign features鈥 of free will – but how do our brains actually fulfil them? A 果冻传媒 academic has answered this question for the first time in a paper published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
