The vast majority of commercial health insurance markets in the United States are dominated by one or two health insurers, according to a newly updated analysis released today by the American Medical Association. These findings and more are contained in the 2010 edition of Competition in Health Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets.
Learning from competitors is a critically important form of learning for animals and humans. A new study has used brain imaging to reveal how people and animals learn from failure and success. The team from Bristol University led by Dr Paul Howard-Jones, Senior Lecturer in Education in the Graduate School of Education and Dr Rafal […]
Do not scoff at those lucky rabbit feet. New research shows that having some kind of lucky token can actually improve your performance – by increasing your self-confidence. The research is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Is being competitive a good or a bad thing when you are a teenager? Well, a bit of both actually: competing to win is detrimental to girls’ social relationships and was linked to higher levels of depression, whereas this was much less the case for boys. However, competing to excel is beneficial to the well-being […]
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