Sentences with phrase «find only studies»

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A recent study from the Wake Forest School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina found that listening to music can help people focus their attention, but — and here's the catch — only if it's music they like.

Although these calculators are plentiful on the internet, only 4 in 10 workers report that they or their spouse have ever tried to estimate how much money they'll need, a recent study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found.

Psychologists call this feeling of freedom to do your job as you see fit «autonomy» and have found in studies that not only does autonomy make employees happy, it also makes them more productive.

As detailed in a study by Harvard Business professor Dennis Campbell, TD revolutionized the way it measured the in - bank experience, streamlining its customer satisfaction survey and using a massive pool of customer data to find out not only how customers felt about their banking experience, but also what specific elements of «satisfaction» mattered most to them.

Here's the most revealing finding from the Achievement Group / HRmarketer study: 58 percent of respondents agreed that results did not — or only slightly — helped managers gain a better understanding of what behaviors or practices they could change to improve.

The quest for this picture - perfect lifestyle isn't only financially crippling for some — recent studies have found that it's contributing to mental - health issues.

E-cigs are dangerous... or not... depending on the circumstance: The Academies» uberstudy, which carefully reviewed more than 800 other peer - reviewed studies, found «conclusive evidence» that «most e-cigarettes... contain and emit numerous potentially toxic substances» (besides nicotine, that is), but found only «substantial evidence» that this exposure to poisons is sorta maybe «significantly lower» than it is in tobacco - filled smokes.

Making time to go outside on a nice day also delivers a huge advantage; one study found that spending 20 minutes outside in good weather not only boosted positive mood, but broadened thinking and improved working memory...

In 2008, a Bank of Canada study found that while 92 % of Canadian retailers accepted credit cards, only 5 % viewed credit cards as the preferred form of payment.

What's more, there was a contagion effect — not only did those divulging find themselves leaving discussions worse off, but their partners were also adversely effected,» says Quartz of studies focused on adolescent girls (though apparently the same thing has been observed in other contexts, too).

When a customer tweeted the company asking for clarification about a fee policy, JetBlue not only immediately responded, but also had a local representative study this man's social media photo, then walk through the airport until he could be found for a follow - up conversation.

It was found all over the US: Nazi lawyers carefully studied the statutes, not only of states such as Virginia, but also states such as Montana.

Hoffman cites a staggering figure from a Deloitte study that found only 8 percent of organizations said annual performance reviews were worth the effort they require.

«In sum, the findings of all studies reveal that consumers only show better self - control following reflection on their past under very specific conditions - when they recall their past self - control successes easily,» the research release reports.

Not only do scientists need to find a place on Europa's surface that will be worth studying, they also need to find a place to land that won't completely destroy the lander upon touch down, Jim Green, NASA's Director of Planetary Science, told Business Insider.

A recent study by McKinsey found that not only is email three times more likely to result in conversion than social media, but the average purchase price is 17 percent higher as well.

Indeed, a recent study that analyzed 30 years of research found no correlation between depression and progestin - only birth control methods (like the IUD or the implant.)

In fact, the authors of the study, who looked at wage data covering all U.S. companies from 1978 to 2012, found that the wage gap between the average worker at individual companies and the highest ranking executives (CEOs and other C - suiters) at those firms had only grown by a «small amount» in the past three - and - a-half decades.

In follow - up studies, they found that motivation boost from uncertainty only occurred when participants were focused on the process of pursuing a reward and not the outcome.

The study found only marginal improvements toward parity in senior and executive leadership positions since 2012; at the current pace of change, it will take 100 years to reach gender equality in the C - suite.

A study published by Marketing Land found that only 20 percent of CMOs leverage social networks for engaging with customers.

Already, only about 20 % of campus sexual assaults are reported, one study found.

In fact, not only is it possible, it's more common than you think — last year, a study found that women tend to lose interest in sex about a year into a relationship.

Not only did the vast majority Americans» net - worth tumble during the recession, for 93 % of households, it continued to slide during the first two years of the recovery as well, a recent study by the Pew Research Center found.

As luck would have it, a similar study from BMO Bank of Montreal, also released on Monday, found that only 29 % Canadian businesses are successfully using social media.

A PR plan is essential for growth, but a new study found only 32 percent of advisors have a position dedicated to marketing.

The study, which wasn't named in Hollauf's column, found that subjects spent an average of only 31 seconds on their schoolwork before getting distracted by another task.

A 2015 study by the Pew Research Center found that only 27 percent of 65 - plus adults own a smartphone.

The first case study presents a couple that has taken an egalitarian approach to dividing up the household chores, only to find themselves miserable.

The New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.

In the case of Facebook, not only have many users failed to opt out because the setting is difficult to find, but many more don't even know that the company filters their news feed, according to a study.

«Mehl and his team found that the happiest person in the study had twice as many substantive conversations, and only one - third the amount of small talk, as the unhappiest person,» reports author Jenn Granneman on Psychology Today.

In a late - stage study, Aimmune, a biotech immunotherapy allergy treatment taken via pill, found that of the roughly 500 kids with peanut allergies between the ages of 4 - 17 who were part of the trial, 67 % of those who received the treatment were able to tolerate 600 milligrams of peanut protein (about two to four peanuts) after about a year of treatment, while only 4 % of those who got the placebo could tolerate that dose of peanut protein.

But while preliminary findings from the first 32 cases involved in the study confirm causality, the researchers said, the true size of the effect will become clear only after full analysis of all 200 cases and 400 controls.

One classic study, outlined in the book Getting a Job, showed that among the 282 men surveyed, 56 percent had found their jobs through personal contacts, whereas only 19 percent had found theirs through job advertisements and 10 percent through applications of their own initiative,» says the post.

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure According to the Kaiser study found that only 14 percent of small businesses offering health benefits to employees also offer health risk assessment.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

An Ohio State University study published in the scientific journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that acetaminophen, the painkilling ingredient in the Johnson & Johnson (johnson - johnson - 40) brand medicine, not only suppresses your own pain, but causes you to perceive other people's pain as being less severe.

Mehta has been studying family caregiving for more than a decade, and his research suggests companies pursuing this niche will find success with solutions that are comprehensive (with the product's services available at all times, even if it's only needed sporadically), intuitive and designed for the interruptions that proliferate in caregivers» busy lives.

But a recent study found across 1,300 top - grossing films from 2002 to 2014, only 4.1 percent of all directors were female.

And in one study in Somalia, researchers found that only 35 percent of a food aid budget went to beneficiaries, compared to a cash program, where 85 percent of aid went to beneficiaries.

Not only will you improve your physical fitness, but you'll also give your brain an added boost: One study found that taking walk breaks during the workday can help people reduce stress and improve their motivation.

A recent EU study found that 59 percent of consumers feel confident about online purchasing in their own country, but only 36 percent feel confident about purchasing from a vendor located in another EU country.

But, the study's authors found that the impact of laughter on teams» performances only occurred when the humour was interactive and engaging; in instances where the humour was isolated — think somebody telling a joke and the room lapsing into awkward silence — there was no effect on performance.

Sitting on his patio at his summer house in Boulder, he pulls out his iPad to forward me an article on a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found that only about one in 10 Americans eats the recommended minimum five servings a day of fruit and vegetables.

One study by the U.S. National Institute of Justice found that «after only 20 minutes of watching and evaluating monitor screens, the attention of most individuals has degenerated to well below acceptable levels.»

A study conducted at the University of Sussex in England found that only six minutes of reading was enough of a distraction to reduce participants» stress levels by 68 percent.

The number of workers on big projects in Western Australia is likely to stabilise at just one quarter of the peak level recorded during the mining construction boom, and that's only if planned projects get approved, a new study has found.

In one study of thousands of employees, researchers found a non-so surprising statistic: only 20 % of Americans can focus on just one task at a time at work.

By studying thousands of people, Rock found that we are truly focused for an average of only six hours per week.