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Creative Company Conference 2011

Acting ‘out of character’ in the workplace

20 Feb 2015

Look around your workplace – and ask yourself which colleagues you’d describe as extravert and which as introvert. Perhaps your most talkative...

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On the street

New study reveals scale of problem gambling among homeless population

02 Apr 2014

Homeless people are ten times more likely to be problem gamblers than the UK population as a whole, researchers at Cambridge have found.

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Self Portrait 6

Out of mind, out of sight: suppressing unwanted memories reduces their unconscious influence on behaviour

18 Mar 2014

New research shows that, contrary to what was previously assumed, suppressing unwanted memories reduces their influence on behaviour, and sheds light...

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Whatta lotta bottles

End-of-aisle displays encourage consumption of alcohol and fizzy drinks

14 Mar 2014

Restricting displays – which increase sales of displayed drinks by up to 46% for alcohol and by 52% for carbonated drinks - could curb consumption...

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Housing estate

Home from home: minor moves make major differences

26 Feb 2014

Most of the moves we make are within 5 km of our previous addresses, yet these short migrations are highly significant within individual lives. New...

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Mods & Rockers 1960s - 1970s

Generation blame: how age affects our views of anti-social behaviour

24 Jan 2014

Research reveals disconnect between what adults and young people interpret as anti-social behaviour (ASB), as 40% of adults see young people...

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Advice for freshers in 1660: "Goe not a gadding and gossiping from Chamber to Chamber..."

26 Sep 2013

Scholars arriving in Cambridge in the 17th century were not short of advice. James Duport, a tutor at Trinity College, compiled rules that covered...

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Collaborative public health research

Anglo-US public health research partnership forged

12 Oct 2012

The University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health will pioneer...

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Glass of wine

Nudging consumers towards better health

25 May 2012

It seems at once the simplest and most complex of health problems: by eating healthily, not smoking, being more active and cutting down on alcohol...

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Couch Potatoing

Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity: understanding these silent killers

14 May 2012

Population-based interventions for tackling unhealthy diet and physical inactivity could save millions of lives. An ambitious research programme is...

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Casey Brienza

Men of wonder: gender and American superhero comics

01 Nov 2011

Boys and action comics go together like Batman and Robin – but how are girls represented in comics? Sociologist, Casey Brienza, investigates the male...

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African greater honeyguide

Natural born killers

07 Sep 2011

Newly hatched chicks of African honeyguide birds bite to death their foster siblings to eliminate competition.

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