From the Iowa State University media release: The nomination of the first woman presidential candidate by a major party has shattered some gender barriers, while at the same time reinforced certain stereotypes… Read more »
From the New York University media release: Beginning in early elementary school, boys outperform girls in math — especially among the highest achievers — continuing a troubling pattern found in the late… Read more »
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center media release: Conventional medical wisdom has long held that placebo effects depend on patients’ belief they are getting pharmacologically active medication. A paper… Read more »
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science media release: A new model is allowing scientists to explore how changing an individual’s certainty in the belief on the truth of… Read more »
From the University of Rhode Island media release: We all know that carrying extra pounds can be bad for your health. Now a URI professor has found that how society treats… Read more »
From the Society for Personality and Social Psychology media release: Whether ideas are “like a light bulb” or come forth as “nurtured seeds,” how we describe discovery shapes people’s perceptions of… Read more »
From the Purdue University media release: New research in game theory shows that people are naturally predisposed to over-use “common-pool resources” such as transportation systems and fisheries even if it risks… Read more »
From the Wiley media release: In a recent analysis, people with epilepsy were seven-fold more likely to have reported experiencing discrimination due to health problems than the general population. This risk… Read more »
From the Canadian Medical Association Journal media release: Offering medical assistance in dying to people in Canada on the basis of psychiatric illnesses could put vulnerable people at risk, argues a… Read more »
From the American Heart Association media release: Forty-five year-old African-Americans are more likely to die of stroke than are whites, not because of differences in care, but because blacks are having… Read more »
