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OK. So you didn't out your colleague who got personal time the boss thought was for a dental appointment when it was actually for lunch with her beau.   You think you're a hero.  But don't go too far.  People who think they are more ethical than others in the workplace can lead to ostracism and social undermining, according to a new study at Baylor University, newswise.com reports. However, m anagers should consider ethics and performance when rewarding employees, Baylor professor says.  So which is it? If you consider yourself more ethical than your coworker, your feelings of ethical superiority can cause a chain reaction that is detrimental to you, your coworker and your organization, according to Baylor University management research. A  new study published in the  Journal of Business Ethics  suggests that your feelings of ethical superiority can lead you to have negative emotions toward a “less ethical” coworker, the web site notes....

I don't know about you but if I know how many people have applied for the same job , I get a little depressed.  Now a new study says that the more applications a job has on LinkedIn, the more people will apply . Maybe they're more confident than I!  In any event, t elling job applicants how many people applied for a job on LinkedIn – regardless of whether the number of applicants was high or low – increased the number of applications, a finding that could help companies that are seeking more diverse applicant pools, according to new research. The study, by Tufts University economist Laura Gee, Ph.D., found that female candidates were especially more likely to apply for positions when information about the current number of applicants was advertised. Gee suggests that this could help "ameliorate the gender occupation gap," newswise.com reports. LinkedIn ran the test over the course of 16 days in March 2012. Gee later analyzed the anonymized dataset, which repre...

The person next to you yawns.  This suddenly irrepressible urge comes over you.  You yawn, too. Why are yawns so contagious? A yawn is a way for the body to take in a fresh supply of oxygen. It is common among stressed people or athletes to do before an event that requires alertness. However, a yawn is also the universal sign for ‘I need a nap,’ so why is it that when somebody nearby lets out a yawn, you suddenly have the urge to reply with one of your own? “In short, we don’t know why yawns are contagious,” says Meredith Williamson, PhD, clinical assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine, at newswise.com. “Researchers used to think that yawning was only signaling a need for sleep, but now they believe that it can communicate a shift in alertness or boredom.” Yawning isn’t the only unspoken form of communication that is contagious. Someone laughing might make us want to, too. This is another social cue that makes you feel the same mimicking urge, a...

First there was Facebook.  Then,  Cambridge Analytica .  Now here comes Twitter. A    majority of Twitter users don't know that researchers often gather and study their tweets – and occasionally, even the deleted ones, according to newswise.com. Most believe researchers should be asking for permission and wrongly assume not doing so violates Twitter's Terms of Service, says a new study by University of Kentucky Assistant Professor  Nicholas Proferes and Casey Fiesler, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.  On the heels of the Cambridge Analytica controversy, in which 87 million Facebook users might have had their data shared with the firm, "questions abound about data, privacy and ethics on social media and beyond," reports newswise.com. "In light of recent events, transparency is even more important," states Proferes, co-author and faculty member in the  UK College of Communication and Information's   School o...

We've all heard the warnings about tweeting and posting stuff on Facebook .  If it's inappropriate enough, you could maybe not get that job you've always wanted.  Or scare off a future mate.  Or a thousand things. But now a new study says there's something else we need to think about when we're on social media. T weeting praise or criticism gives you more power – and can pose a greater potential threat – than you may know, according to Michigan State University research, as reported by newswise.com. "That’s because it’s not just a tweet," the web site explains. "Your post on any platform, such as Facebook or YouTube, can become part of a supraplatform , or a system of interconnected platforms. Within these supraplatforms, users become vulnerable to dark patterns, which are user experiences that trick people into performing actions not in their best interests (think: click here to vote for X, or follow Y to show support)." Liza Potts, ...

We've all heard about how fake news is spread more quickly than news that is legitimate.  But did you also know that we perceive bias in certain neutral stories, depending on who is posting it? Turns out  news stories are perceived as biased based on who shares that story on social media, regardless if the actual story is biased.  Researchers call it  " hostile media ."  A new study  also examines how Republicans and Democrats perceive bias of a news story differently depending on how many followers a Twitter account has. “Readers are inclined to believe that news content is unbiased, or less biased, when they share the same partisan affiliation as the source sharing the story than they are when the source does not share their perspective,” says Tae Kyoung Lee, lead author and assistant professor of communication at the University of Utah at newswise.com. To expand upon previous studies about the hostile media effect – which occurs when a neutral news...

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