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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Katy Milkman of the Wharton School says that four-fifths of Americans who make New Year’s resolutions to change bad habits will eventually fail, with roughly a third giving up by the end of January.
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Susan Wachter of the Wharton School compares the current drop in home sales and housing prices to the risky lending and rising prices of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Roopali Kulkarni of the School of Dental Medicine suggests methods to treat bad breath, such as swapping sugar-rich and odor-causing foods for healthier options that require chewing.
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Perelman School of Medicine’s Mathias Basner says it is significant that so many people are using ‘brown noise’ for concentration and sleep but more research is needed.
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A Penn study found that overweight people received low ratings for competence, regardless of their qualifications or performance.
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Cait Lamberton of the Wharton School said companies that waited to divest from Russia “have lost the consumer tendency to infer real authenticity.” Still, she said, it’s better to do something meaningful later than to take a weak stance or not take action at all.
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Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School said labor and supply chain issues caused by the pandemic are driving inflation. "At the end of the day, when you have a shortage of supply, prices also go up because a lot of people want to buy the same thing, but if it's not available, then prices start to go up," he said.
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Penn’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law issued recommendations for shuttering the Guantánamo Bay prison. "The arrival of the first detainees to Guantánamo on January 11, 2002, ushered in one of the darkest and most ignominious chapters in U.S. history," said Claire Finkelstein of the Law School.
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Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School spoke about the Federal Reserve’s efforts to curb inflation by increasing interest rates. "The steps that they need to take in order to bring inflation down are going to hurt the stock market and then potentially directly hurt the real economy with hiring, investments, and so on. It's really just finding the path that is going to cause the least accumulative damage," he said. "It's a highly sort of treacherous road ahead."
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Researchers co-led by Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that full FDA approval will help convince parents to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19. “As more evidence of children getting vaccinated appears, people will feel more comfortable,” Jamieson said.