What Reddit’s basketball fans can tell us about online discourse
Credit: Zhang et al. 2019 Basketball season kicked off last month and with it comes the return of the most ...
Tag: Social/Behavioral Science
Reversed halo signs manifest in septic pulmonary embolism due to IV drug use
American Journal of Roentgenology research finds that the reversed halo sign is an early and reliable imaging finding observed in ...
People with autism have a more symmetrical brain
Credit: Clyde Francks, MPI Nijmegen The left and right halves of our brains develop differently, as each hemisphere 'specialises' in ...
Seizures in babies: UVA sheds light on why they have lifelong effects
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA A doctor at University of Virginia Children's is using an elegant new approach to mapping ...
Artificial networks shed light on human face recognition
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Our brains are so primed to recognize faces - or to tell people apart - ...
Do open relationships really work?
Credit: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester/researchers Open relationships typically describe couples in which the partners have agreed on sexual activity with ...
Testing HIV testers
Innovative Penn Nursing study employs a mystery shopper methodology to assess HIV testing services for young men who have sex ...
Teens with autism can master daily living skills when parents teach, reach for iPads
Study promotes daily living skills for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder via parent delivery of video promptingCredit: Florida Atlantic University ...
Faith, truth and forgiveness: How your brain processes abstract thoughts
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have leveraged machine learning to interpret human brain scans, allowing the ...
Evidence of humans, not ‘bots,’ key to uncovering disinformation campaigns
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Political disinformation campaigns on social media threaten to sway political outcomes, ...
Which came first: Brain size or drinking propensity?
New research challenges traditional idea about relationship between alcohol use and brain sizeCredit: Washington University For years, researchers have observed ...
New findings could improve diagnosis, treatment of depression
Scientists find potential biomarker for major symptom of depression: lack of motivationCredit: Image courtesy of Stephan Lammel, UC Berkeley Researchers ...
What use do teenagers make of YouTube?
An article published in the journal Information, Communication & Society by Fernanda Pires, Carlos A. Scolari and Maria-José Masanet,examines teenagers' ...
Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge
'Dante' beat 23 others in predicting the timing, peak, and short-term intensity of the unfolding 2018-2019 flu season. Enhanced version ...
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