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 and double standards that still…
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 1990s, finds a new analysis…
From the Washington University in St. Louis media release: Using MRIs, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified areas in the brains of children with Tourette’s syndrome that appear markedly different from…
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 one statement leads to changes…
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 overweight people makes matters worse.…
From the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences media release: Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh have identified the neural networks that connect the cerebral cortex to the adrenal medulla, which is responsible…
From the The JAMA Network Journals media release: Among adults with chronic low back pain, both mindfulness-based stress reduction [MBSR] and cognitive behavioral therapy [CBT] resulted in greater improvement in back pain and functional limitations…
From the Elsevier media release: A study to be published in the February 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that adolescents chronically victimized during at…
From the University of Alabama at Birmingham media release: A new study suggests many patients at risk for suicide would voluntarily place their name on a Do Not Sell list, prohibiting gun shops from immediately selling…
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 both inventions and inventors. Notably,…