Social Sciences

Living on a cruise ship is a feasible and cost-effective option to assisted living facilities, and the services offered on a cruise ship parallel — even surpass — what is provided in senior care facilities, according to a study in the November issue of the Journal of the American Geriatric Society.

“Offering many amenities, such as three meals a day with escorts to meals, physicians on site and housekeeping/laundry services, cruise ship could be considered a floating assisted li

People living in rural areas are still dependent on their market town, and the town is reliant on them, a new study shows.

However, changes need to be made if residents are to continue using local shops and services, suggest researchers from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, who examined the situation in Alnwick in rural Northumberland, which is widely known for its castle – the location for Hogwarts wizard school in the Harry Potter films and its multi-million pound water gar

Telephone conference calls are widely used by business, but they also have great value for people outside work. New ESRC funded research, shows people such as the elderly, who may be socially isolated due to mobility problems, enjoy conference calls.

The study was led by Professor Andrew Monk of the Department of Psychology at the University of York. He argues the calls could be made more enjoyable by developing technologies that support electronic socialising, providing visual aids

You and your fellow townspeople are hiding in a cellar from marauding soldiers. Your baby starts to cry, which would alert the soldiers to your presence. The only way to save yourself and the others is to smother your baby. What do you do?

Making such tough personal moral judgments involves not just abstract reasoning or emotion, as shown by the results of a new study by Joshua Greene and his colleagues. Rather, their brain scan studies of people making such judgments revealed th

Executives who downplay ethics and values in their decision making may also be the ones who prefer extraordinarily high salaries for themselves. By comparison, those executives who are more inclined to consider ethics and values in their decisions preferred more fair pay throughout their organizations.

Diane Swanson, associate professor of management and the von Waaden business administration professor at Kansas State University, said this is the most significant implication of

In Britain, 900,000 adults are stalked every year. It’s a crime that devastates lives. Stalking behaviour can lead to assault, rape and in some cases murder. All too often those affected are left to suffer in silence.

For the first time ever, global stalking victims are being given a voice. The University of Leicester and the Network for Surviving Stalking [NSS] are embarking on the most comprehensive study of those affected by the crime.

The researchers aim to find out vi