Bag plonked on seat – should you give it up for someone?
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Are you sitting comfortably? How about your M&S leather duffel bag, strategically – pointedly – placed on the train seat next to you?
In the old normal, we fellow passengers would probably shrug it off. In this new awkward, and a sticky heatwave to boot, we’ve been plunged into an existential – which is to say an etiquette – crisis.
Is it acceptable to ask for the bag to be removed or would it be considered rude and possibly reckless?
I’m far from alone in feeling piqued by the lack of post-pandemic courtesy
People more concerned about catching Covid-19 were more disapproving of the wrong-doings of others, whatever they were doing wrong, according to a study on how we make moral judgements.The findings are evidence that our morality is shaped by .
Loan applications processed around midday more likely to be rejected ANI | Updated: May 06, 2021 20:00 IST
Washington [US], May 6 (ANI): According to a new study, bank credit officers are more likely to approve loan applications earlier and later in the day, while decision fatigue around midday is associated with defaulting to the safer option of saying no.
These are the findings of a study by researchers in Cambridge s Department of Psychology, published today in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
Decision fatigue is the tiredness caused by having to make difficult decisions over a long period. Previous studies have shown that people suffering from decision fatigue tend to fall back on the default decision : choosing whatever option is easier or seems safer.
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Bank credit officers are more likely to approve loan applications earlier and later in the day, while decision fatigue around midday is associated with defaulting to the safer option of saying no.
These are the findings of a study by researchers in Cambridge s Department of Psychology, published today in the journal
Royal Society Open Science.
Decision fatigue is the tiredness caused by having to make difficult decisions over a long period. Previous studies have shown that people suffering from decision fatigue tend to fall back on the default decision : choosing whatever option is easier or seems safer.
The researchers looked at the decisions made on 26,501 credit loan applications by 30 credit officers of a major bank over a month. The officers were making decisions on restructuring requests : where the customer already has a loan but is having difficulties paying it back, so asks the bank to adjust the repayments.
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