Uber and Lyft Causing Road Congestion in San Francisco
The rapid growth of TNCs (Transportation network companies) is attributable to the numerous advantages and conveniences that TNCs provide over other modes of transportation, including point-to-point service, ease of reserving rides, shorter wait times, lower fares (relative to taxis), ease of payment, and real-time communication with drivers. The availability of this new travel alternative provid…
Building Tomorrow's Talent: Collaboration Can Close Emerging Skills Gap
A recent study (Building Tomorrow's Talent: Collaboration Can Close Emerging Skills Gap) revealed that four in 10 corporations and almost half of academic institutions believe that recent graduates lack certain so-called 'soft skills' needed in the workforce to be successful, including emotional intelligence, complex reasoning, and negotiation and persuasion, etc. Employers are now mo…
The New Automobility: Lyft, Uber and the Future of American Cities
This research report, The New Automobility: Lyft, Uber and the Future of American Cities, was written by Bruce Schaller, Principal of Schaller Consulting, to further public understanding and discussion of the role that app-based ride services and other vehicle-for-hire services can and should play in furthering urban mobility, safety, and environmental goals. Rideshare service providers, such as …
Encouraging More High School Students to Consider Teaching
The survey-based research, Encouraging More High School Students to Consider Teaching, conducted by the ACT in June 2018, indicates that education as a major has declined in popularity among ACT-tested high school graduates and that the students most interested in being K–12 teachers are less academically prepared than other students. This is a bad news to the public education because it predicts…
Religiosity and the Decreased Likelihood to Divorce among Married Christians in the United States
This dissertation research, titled Religiosity and the Decreased Likelihood to Divorce among Married Christians in the United States, was conducted by Norma Sylvia Shearin (2016) as the partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctorate of Psychology at Grand Canyon University. With divorce rates increasing among Christian marriages, it is important to identify the significant facto…
Identification of Elementary Teachers' Risk for Stress and Vocational Concerns Using the National Schools and Staffing Survey
Teachers’ high job demands and low resources were significantly related to job stress, job dissatisfaction, and potential turnover. After the study of Vocational Concerns of Elementary Teachers (McCarthy, Lambert, & Reiser, 2014), the same authors conducted a similar research with a much larger sample (Lambert, McCarthy, Fitchett, Lineback, & Reiser, 2015). The new study was to Identify …
Teachers’ Job Stress and Health
Psychological research provided empirical evidence about job stress manifestations. High-level job stress could manifest mental and psychosomatic diseases among employees.Scheuch, Haufe, and Seibt (2015) performed a meta-analysis to review teachers’ occupational health in Germany. This study was conducted using a selective review of the literature and data derived from the German statutory health…
Theory of Counterfactual Thinking
In this informative and straightforward guide, author Harris Cooper goes beyond the proper treatment of human research subjects to Counterfactuality is currently a hotly debated topic. While for some disciplines, such as linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology, counterfactual scenarios have been an important object of study for quite a while, counterfactual thinking has in recent years em…
10 Breakthrough Therapies for Parkinson's Disease
Michael S. Okun, M.D. is internationally celebrated as both a neurologist and a leading researcher. He has often been referred to as, “the voice of the Parkinson’s disease patient.” He was honored at the White House in 2015 as a Champion of Change for Parkinson’s disease. He has an international following on the National Parkinson Foundation’s Ask the Doctor web-forum and he is a Professor of N…
Ethical Choices in Research: Managing Data, Writing Reports, and Publishing Results in the Social Sciences
In this informative and straightforward guide, author Harris Cooper goes beyond the proper treatment of human research subjects to examine frequently neglected ethical issues that arise after the subjects have left. He teaches students and researchers how to avoid these issues through careful planning that begins in the very early stages of a project's inception. Readers will learn about im…
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