The impulse to buy. Smart grid security. Woman's pleasure.

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• The Globe and Mail (reprised by Newscaf) picks up coverage of new research by Michel Laroche, marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business, and HEC marketing professor Marcelo Nepomuceno, on how thoughts of death can impact consumers' impulse to buy. The research was published in The Journal of Consumer Affairs.
• El Watan reports on the recent appointment of Mourad Debbabi, professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), as principal chairholder of the Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Security, Detection, Prevention, Mitigation and Recovery from Cyber-Physical Attacks. The article notes also the announcement of a five-year, $2.1-million grant in support of the work by Debbabi and his team.
• International Business Times describes the conclusions of a recent study led by Jim Pfaus, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who found that women can derive intense sexual pleasure from wide ranging sources of stimulation.

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