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What was the relationship between government policies and public perceptions of condom use in Singapore during the 1970s through the 1990s? Did you know that in the 1970s, officials in Singapore considered selling contraceptives in slot machines to make them more easily available? Learn about Singapore’s condom debates in ‘The state in sexual life: Public …
The state in sexual life: Public perceptions of condom use in Singapore, 1970–1990 Read More »
What sorts of privacy management strategies do we use on Facebook? Associate Professor Hichang Cho from the NUS Department of Communications and New Media investigates using samples from Singapore, the United States, and South Korea. Find out as well how conceptions of privacy vary across cultures, and what the consequences of collective privacy management are …
Collective Privacy Management in Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Validation Read More »
A new study conducted by Associate Professor Alberto Salvo, Associate Professor Liu Haoming, and Dr He Jiaxu (NUS Department of Economics) on air pollution was featured in The Straits Times. The study, just published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, found that long-term exposure to polluted air adversely affects the productivity of a workforce. …
In this episode of ‘Why It Matters 2’, host Joshua Lim joins Professor Matthias Roth from the NUS Department of Geography on a study trip, to track the temperature across Singapore. They found that there was a sharp increase of 4°C from Lim Chu Kang to Orchard Road, despite these areas being only 30 minutes …
Hearty congratulations to Assistant Professor Patricia Chen! The NUS Department of Psychology faculty member has been awarded a grant worth S$449,970 from the Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) for a study titled ‘Scalable Mind-set Interventions to Nurture Strategic, Self-Regulated Learners’. The research project can be summarized as follows: In today’s world where learning resources are plentiful …
Chewing gum is a nuisance for cleaners, but can it be used as a tool of infrastructural sabotage? On the 3rd of January, 1992 chewing gum was banned in Singapore. The ban followed enforcement of restrictions regarding street hawking, fines on littering and spitting, as well as the elimination of farms, policies which were part …
Chewing Gum: More than a Nuisance, a Tool of Infrastructural Sabotage Read More »
‘Choosing for You: Diminished Self–Other Discrepancies in Financial Decisions Under Risk in the Elderly’, a recent article in Psychology and Aging by Dr Narun Pornpattananangkul (National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland), Assistant Professor Yu Rongjun, Mr Bing Cai Kok (both NUS Psychology), and others, found that older adults may care more about strangers’ welfare when …
Older adults in Singapore care about strangers’ welfare in financial decision-making Read More »
Love to showcase your travel photos on Facebook and Instagram? Enjoy following online posts about your friends’ and acquaintances’ journeys? Develop a deeper understanding of the effect of online documentation of travel voluntourism in the developing world through ‘Voluntouring on Facebook and Instagram: Photography and social media in constructing the ‘Third World’ experience’, a new …
Is trade imbalance solely responsible for the decline in manufacturing jobs? Assistant Professor Chen Chaoran (NUS Department of Economics) opined that trade imbalance is not a massive contributor to the loss of manufacturing jobs, rather it is the increase in labour productivity of manufacturing, as pointed out by Dr Rachel Ngai and Dr Christopher Pissarides, that …
Productivity, not trade, explains shift from manufacturing to services Read More »
The National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2019. FASS plans to showcase its impact and contribution to society by advancing knowledge, informing policy, and supporting social innovation and enterprise. FASS is having an open call for proposals to receive funding support of up to …