WSU in the Media – February 16, 2015

The New York Times – And in a more recent study, Ionnis Kareklas, Darrel D. Muehling, and TJ Weber, all of Washington State University, found that the comments on a public-service announcement about vaccination affected readers’ attitudes as strongly as the P.S.A. itself did.

BBC News – But are the police themselves ever too quick to initiate a dangerous chase? ”Oh every day” says Professor Geoffrey Alpert, at Washington State University, who collects data on pursuits. “Every day there are these useless chases across America…”

The Dallas Morning News – “What’s interesting is: when we ask people to tell us about a time they got revenge, they can’t recall” — they say “they’d never do that,” said Thomas M. Tripp, a professor of management at Washington State University, Vancouver, who studies revenge in the workplace. “But then you ask them to tell about a time they got even, and they have no problem gleefully telling you about the guy who got his just deserts.”