Tag: Social/Behavioral Science

If your attention gets diverted in different directions by smartphones and other digital devices, take note: Media multitasking has now ...

Credit: Sara Santiago For five decades, the U.S. government's mission to intercept or seize cocaine and other drugs entering the ...

Research finds no substantial association between risk, 18 highly-studied genes Over the past quarter-century, researchers have published hundreds of studies ...

On behalf of eight national aging organizations, The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has secured multi-year grant funding from several ...

Credit: Bruch and Newman/Sociological Science When searching for love on the Internet, most people end up connecting with the girl ...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 2, 2019--A new three-part study showed that a delayed-release, extended-release ...

When broadband comes to town, flexible work is boosted and work-life balance improves for educated women, who can choose to ...

A new University of Liverpool led study, published in The Lancet, highlights the effectiveness of a brief group psychological intervention ...

Children born into poverty show key differences in early brain function - according to new research from the University of ...

You can grasp a hand. You can also grasp a concept. One is literal. One is metaphorical. Our brains know ...

Face-to-face workshops based on the psychology of behaviour change and disaster preparedness can be used to prompt households to take ...

Leading autism scientists, students, and advocates from around the world to gather in Montreal to share latest findings and discoveries ...

Credit: Rutgers University Religious and cultural beliefs may discourage many Latinos in the United States from seeking treatment for depression ...

Credit: University of Exeter Artefacts such as bows and arrows do not necessarily prove our ancestors had sophisticated reasoning and ...