From the University of York press release: With the Christmas party season fast approaching, there will be plenty of opportunity to re-live the familiar, and excruciatingly-awkward, social situation of not being able to remember an…
From the Dartmouth College press release: The basic human need to get along with others results in the formation of extreme political groupings, according to a study from Dartmouth College. The findings, published in the…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Age-related declines in abstract reasoning ability predict increasing depressive symptoms in subsequent years, according to data from a longitudinal study of older adults in Scotland. The research…
From the American Chemical Society press release: The siren call of addictive drugs can be hard to resist, and returning to the environment where drugs were previously taken can make resistance that much harder. However,…
From the North Carolina State University press release: A new study finds that bias-based bullying does more harm to students than generalized bullying, particularly for students who are targeted because of multiple identities, such as…
From the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs press release: Alcohol advertisements on social media sites such as Facebook can increase young adults’ desire to drink if the ads contain pro-drinking comments from users.…
From the PLOS press release: Many individuals use music in the hope that it fights sleep difficulties, according to a study published November 14 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Tabitha Trahan of the University of…
From the University of Arizona press release: It has been dubbed the “retail apocalypse” — the widespread shuttering of brick-and-mortar stores across America in the wake of online shopping’s skyrocketing popularity. But how do consumers…
From the York University press release: Young women who actively engage with social media images of friends who they think are more attractive than themselves report feeling worse about their own appearance afterward, a York…
From the Penn State press release: Most people would appreciate a chatbot that offers sympathetic or empathetic responses, according to a team of researchers, but they added that reaction may rely on how comfortable the…