Tag: Social/Behavioral Science

Millennials - young adults in their 20s and 30s - earn less money without a college degree and are more ...

Study counters narrative that street homeless are ‘service resistant’

Interviews with New York City homeless by researchers from the NYU Silver School of Social Work show impact of bureaucratic ...

To protect kids and teens from firearm harm, answer these question first, experts

As interest grows in addressing the second leading cause of death for young people, researchers list the most urgent priorities ...

Personality traits of drug users

Credit: Credit to the authors The social environment is an influential factor with regards to drug addiction. However, some people ...

Does obesity increase risk of being a bullying victim, perpetrator, or both?

USC study: Exposure to videos of race-based violence online may be spurring mental-health issues

Research suggests that viewing viral videos of police shootings and detained immigrants is associated with depressive and PTSD symptoms in ...

Somebody’s watching you: The surveillance of self-driving cars

Picture the future, where driving is a thing of the past. You can hop in your car or one from ...

nTIDE May 2019 Jobs Report: Job numbers up slightly for Americans with disabilities

Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire release nTIDE Report -- Monthly Update -- featuring ways to advance competitive integrated ...

Fascination AI — a tool that changes the world

Learning systems were in the focus of KIT's 2019 annual celebrationCredit: Photo: M.Breig/KIT Artificial intelligence (AI) and derived technologies and ...

Autism linked to less empathy in general population — but that may not be a bad thing

University of Bath press release Researchers have conclusively shown that people with autistic traits show less empathy and reduced understanding ...

Bird personalities influenced by both age and experience, study shows

New research by University of Alberta biologists examines development of personality in birdsCredit: Jan J. Wijmenga For birds, differences in ...

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 ...

LGBT-identifying females are at increased risk of substance use in early adolescence

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Females who identify as sexual minorities face an increased risk of substance use that shows up as ...

Where to draw the line between mental health and illness?

Defining mental disorders and illnesses is not straightforward. Notions of whether a certain phenomenon should be classified as an illness ...

AMA honors research on how mindfulness helps consumers decision making

The Journal of Public Policy & Marketing is pleased to honor the 2019 Thomas C. Kinnear Award to "Mindfulness: Its ...

Early-life challenges affect how children focus, face the day

Adversity early in life tends to affect a child's executive function skills -- their ability to focus, for example, or ...

It pays to be free: No-cost products garner strong word-of-mouth recommendations

Consumers who get a web-based product or mobile app for free are more likely to give it a word-of-mouth boost ...

Smaller city effort to aid chronically homeless can be successful

Study finds people placed in permanent housing and use fewer municipal services Creating a municipally funded team to provide intensive ...

Safe consumption spaces would be welcomed by high-risk opioid users

Three-city study finds strong support for harm-reduction strategy A large majority of people who use heroin and fentanyl would be ...

Autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other