C1. Are Workaholics Narcissists?

According to a study conducted by researchers at Anadolu University in Turkey, workaholism may be connected to the personality traits of narcissism and perfectionism. Over three hundred academics working at universities in Turkey completed an online survey assessing factors that included levels of workaholism, perfectionism and feelings of inferiority – Read more…

B1. Animal Rights and Wrongs

When is right and when is a wrong to kill and eat an animal? Is it based on the animal’s intelligence, how close it is to being human, or is it just culturally subjective? This free reading lesson includes exercises and a discussion topic that challenges students’ ideas about the Read more…

B2. How Honest Are We Really?

As part of a two-year research experiment, researchers handed in more than 17,000 ‘lost’ wallets that they said they had found in public buildings in 355 cities in 40 countries around the world to find out how honest people were. The researchers, along with 279 academic economists, assumed that putting Read more…