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UD alumna studies leatherback sea turtles in Costa Rica

It’s not every day that you get to see a creature that has been around for 110 million years emerge from the ocean and lay its eggs on the beach. Unless, of course, you’re like University of Delaware graduate Lauren Cruz, who spends her days in Costa Rica with the Leatherback Trust studying leatherback sea turtle nesting ecology.

Cruz, a 2013 graduate who studied wildlife conservation in UD’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, is tracking the demographics of the turtles that nest at Playa Grande and Parque Nacional de las baulas — which translates to the park of leatherback sea turtles — and spends her nights with a team patrolling the beach looking for nesting turtles. (more…)

A Scarcity of Women Leads Men to Spend More, Save Less

By Guest PostJanuary 13, 2012Cultureandrew delton, andrew e white, behavior, credit cards, economic decisions, Economics, engagement rings, expenditures, financial behavior, financial consequences, iceberg, impulsive, joshua m ackerman, joshua tybur, local population, men and women, news articles, perception, photo arrays, products, psychology, sex ratio, theresa robertson, twin cities of minneapolis, university of minnesota, us cities, valentine gifts, violence and survival, vladas griskevicius, women

*University of Minnesota Research Finds Sex Ratios Influence Financial Decisions*

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL — The perception that women are scarce leads men to become impulsive, save less, and increase borrowing, according to new research from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

“What we see in other animals is that when females are scarce, males become more competitive. They compete more for access to mates,” says Vladas Griskevicius, an assistant professor of marketing at the Carlson School and lead author of the study. “How do humans compete for access to mates? What you find across cultures is that men often do it through money, through status and through products.” (more…)

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A Scarcity of Women Leads Men to Spend More, Save Less