Justified and unjustified movie violence evokes different brain responses, study finds
Justified violence in PG-13 films is seen as more acceptableCredit: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience/Annenberg Public Policy Center The gun violence ...
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Thousands of medieval manuscripts now online in full color through digitization project
Scholars and aficionados can search, download and study 160,000 pages of high-resolution, full-color manuscripts dating to the ninth century, thanks ...
2000-year-old Herculaneum Scrolls from Institut de France studied at Diamond Light Source
Researchers led by the renowned ancient artefacts decoder, Professor Brent Seales, will be using Diamond, the UK's national synchrotron science ...
‘Mystical’ psychedelic compound found in normal brains
A study in rats has revealed the presence of naturally occurring DMT, an increasingly popular hallucinogen In the past few ...
Changing minds: How do you communicate with climate change skeptics?
UNLV researcher develops new method for categorizing climate change beliefs and shares tactics for communicating with deniersCredit: Aaron Mayes/UNLV Creative ...
From witchcraft to ‘bloody flux’: astrology doctors’ 400-year-old case notes transcribed
Credit: Bodleian Library, Oxford Simon Forman and his protégé Richard Napier were infamous in early 17th-century England for their apparent ...
Regenstrief, IU Health study helps chaplains provide proactive care to families in crises
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- A new model developed and implemented by the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Health provides ...
Experiences of ‘ultimate reality’ or ‘God’ confer lasting benefits to mental health
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In distinguished company
Four UC Santa Barbara professors join the 2019 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences UC Santa Barbara ...
Tailoring lactation education to the cultural needs of orthodox Jewish families
Credit: Eric Sucar, Univ. of Penn. Communications PHILADELPHIA (April 5, 2019) -Breastfeeding is an accepted practice for millions of women ...
Mental health stigma, fueled by religious belief, may prevent latinos from seeking help
Credit: Rutgers University Religious and cultural beliefs may discourage many Latinos in the United States from seeking treatment for depression ...
Changing the relationship between disability and technology
A major new research project is harnessing a diverse range of disciplines to examine how technologists can learn from people ...
Brain Institute receives over $7 million to study the neurophilosophy of free will
Award comes from the John Templeton Foundation and the Fetzer Institute The newly-minted Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Science ...
Complex societies gave birth to big gods, not the other way around
Big data analyses suggest that moralizing gods are rather the product than the drivers of social complexityCredit: (c) the authors ...
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