Seducing the Subconscious: The Psychology of Emotional Influence in Advertising
Isabelle Szmigin examines how billboards and commercials lure us into buying certain products
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A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland
The public response in the UK to the approach of war and its outbreak in August 1914 has been depicted by many historians as one of irrational enthusiasm, fever and jingoism. It is a view that has...
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Shakespeare in America
At the time of writing, Shakespeare's Globe is staging his oeuvre in a variety of languages including King John in Armenian, Hamlet in Lithuanian and Troilus and Cressida in Maori. There is also a...
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Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis
Plugging the income gap could prevent another economic landslide, discovers Stewart Lansley
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man: Psychoanalysis and Masculinity
The title of this important book echoes both Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Henry Louis Gates Jr's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. Like Stevens and Gates,...
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The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One
Calling himself a scientific fundamentalist, evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa does not shy away from controversy. Arguing with fundamentalists is usually futile, but when his latest book...
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News in brief
United StatesRavages of ageingA US university system is facing soaring costs for pensions and retired employees' healthcare that are putting pressure on officials to raise tuition fees still further...
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Health begets wealth in the little land of opportunity
One of Europe's smallest states has big plans for medical research, writes Jack Grove in Luxembourg
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsScience• Award winner Robert Upstill-Goddard• Institution Newcastle University• Value £138,544What is the surfactant control of air-sea gas exchange across...
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No bias for crass action
Contra the media and the bruised egos in the financial sector, the academic mindset is well suited to the Bank of England governorship
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Finch's open-access cure may be 'worse than the disease'
Research elite say cost of gold plan could cripple the sector as publishers profit. Paul Jump writes
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Chill wind from Gloucestershire as fears grow over recruitment shortfalls
Evidence has emerged that some higher education institutions may be falling markedly short on undergraduate recruitment for next year, with the University of Gloucestershire warning staff that it is...
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Keep up the good work: Willetts
Wilson response sees limited role for Whitehall in industry/academy links. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Dame wants youth to seize the day abroad
The UK should be encouraging its youth to study for their degrees at overseas universities, according to a vice-chancellor.
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Do my antennae look big in this? Time for our close-up, humans
This close-up of a drain-dwelling moth fly was among the 16 winners of the Wellcome Image Awards 2012, presented on 20 June.