National campaign to capture stories of hope and transformation through living donation
The Transplant Research and Education Center (TREC) and the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, with support from Thermo Fisher Scientific, ...
Tag: Social/Behavioral Science
Research shows aging chimps, like humans, value friendships
Credit: University of New Mexico Old friends get together to relax, share meals, and trust and support each other. In ...
Researchers examine impact of digital information on COVID-19 decisions and behavior
Credit: Virginia Tech With the COVID-19 pandemic now a regular part of daily life, are people changing their COVID-related risk ...
How is gender diversity achieved in working life?
Credit: University of Bern The aim of the international "G-VERSITY - Achieving Gender Diversity" research project is not just to ...
Big-hearted corvids
Social life as a driving factor of birds' generosityCredit: © Lisa Horn Ravens, crows, magpies and their relatives are known ...
Word graph analysis confirms that dream report structure varies according to sleep stage
Study by Brazilian and South African researchers is the first to prove, using a graph analysis tool, that REM dream ...
Cognitive elements of language have existed for 40 million years
Credit: National Center for Chimpanzee Care in Bastrop, Texas Humans are not the only beings that can identify rules in ...
Seeing no longer believing: the manipulation of online images
Online images are not always what they seem, especially on social mediaCredit: Dr T.J. Thomson, QUT's Digital Media Research Centre ...
Does classroom indoor environmental quality affect teaching and learning?
Credit: Dr. Brink What impact does a classroom's indoor environment have on teaching, learning, and students' academic achievement in colleges ...
Citizens themselves contribute to political mistrust
Credit: Poul Ib Henriksen/Aarhus University The study by the Department of Political Science at Aarhus BSS shows that the growing ...
Conversation about suicide prevention leads to safe gun storage
Credit: Forefront Suicide Prevention/University of Washington Talking to people at gun shows about suicide prevention and the risks of unsecured ...
UTEP and partners awarded $1.5 million NSF grant to improve quality of life for senior citizens
Credit: Courtesy. EL PASO, Texas - A team of interdisciplinary researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso in ...
Changes in blood metabolite profile are visible years before diagnosis of alcohol-related disease
Credit: UEF / Raija Törrönen A new study from the University of Eastern Finland is the first in the world ...
New study highlights the role of risk communication in coping with COVID-19
Credit: Zheng JIN The mental effects of pandemics on people can arise not only from the burden of preventive measures, ...
COVID: women are less likely to put themselves in danger
Women's attitudes and behaviors may have contributed to their reduced vulnerability and mortality. A survey in 8 countries shows they ...
New study to assess pandemic’s impact on Canadian veterans and their spouses
Credit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ON - Lawson Health Research Institute and the Centre of Excellence on Post-Traumatic Stress ...
Researchers question the existence of the social brain as a separate system
Russian research team gains deeper insight into the workings of the human brain during group problemCredit: Shpurov IY, Vlasova RM, ...
The climate crisis, democracy and governance
New Springer book by an informed EU insider presents a toolbox to ensure that climate policies are receiving the needed ...
The rise of ‘zoom towns’ in the rural west
Growing populations in gateway communities cause urgent planning challenges; the GNAR initiative aims to help local officials prepareCredit: Brian Whitehead/National ...
Therapy plus medication better than medication alone in bipolar disorder
New research finds CBT, family and group therapy are especially helpful in preventing illness recurrenceCredit: UCLA Health A review of ...