Tag: Social/Behavioral Science

The effect of advanced paternal age on offspring risk is not explained by parental predisposition for schizophrenia, according to a ...

Trained musicians perform better — at paying attention

Musical training improves the ability to tune out distractions, and the more training, the better the control, reports research published ...

How the brain ‘mentalizes’ cooperation

Credit: Abe M. O. et al., Neural correlates of online cooperation during joint force production, NeuroImage, February 7, 2019.) Researchers ...

Children develop PTSD when they ‘overthink’ their trauma

Children are more likely to suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) if they think their reaction to traumatic events is ...

Discrimination, PTSD may lead to high preterm-birth rates among African-American women

African-American women are nearly twice as likely to give birth prematurely as white women. Such births often coincide with low ...

The most aggressive spider societies are not always the ones that flourish

Credit: Noa Pinter-Wollman Evolutionary biologists at McMaster University who study the social lives and behaviour of colony spiders--some of which ...

LSU Health study reports continued PTSD in women exposed to deepwater horizon oil spill

New Orleans, LA - A study led by LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health reports that women exposed ...

Youth smoking and vaping: What does it mean for tobacco control

Because most people who smoke cigarettes begin young, public health efforts to prevent tobacco use among youth are a priority. ...

‘Technoference’: We’re more tired & less productive because of our phones

QUT study finds problematic phone use getting worse in Australia One in five women and one in eight men are ...

Attractive businesswomen viewed as less trustworthy ‘femmes fatales’

'Highly attractive women can be perceived as dangerous'Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - A Washington State University researcher says ...

Despite general support for police use of body-worn cameras, impacts may be overestimated

Police use of body-worn cameras is growing rapidly in the United States. New research that looked at 70 studies of ...

What does it mean to be a man in America?

New book explores issue through lens of trans menCredit: University of Minnesota Press What does it mean to a man ...

Exercise adds up to big brain boosts

March 24, 2019

March 24, 2019 - Anyone who trains for a marathon knows that individual running workouts add up over time to ...

How the ‘good feeling’ can influence the purchase of sustainable chocolate