From the Michigan State University press release: The power of friendship gets stronger with age and may even be more important than family relationships, indicates new research by a Michigan State University scholar. In a…
From the PLOS press release: Like chimpanzees, humans may console their threatened peers out of empathy, according to a study published May 31, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard from…
From the University of Turku press release: Finnish and British researchers have revealed how laughter releases endorphins in the human brain. The more opioid receptors the participants had in their brain, the more they laughed…
From the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) press release: How you dress, talk, eat and even what you allow yourself to feel — these often unspoken rules of a group are social norms,…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release: Girls who go through puberty and develop physically earlier than their peers are at risk of low self-esteem as well as emotional and behavioral problems. Research has also indicated…
From the Society for Personality and Social Psychology press release: Low self-esteem partners can feel vulnerable in their relationship, including feeling insecure about their partner’s support and love. In a series of studies, social psychologists in…
From the Medical University of Vienna press release: The results of a study conducted at MedUni Vienna under the direction of Michaela Bayerle-Eder, doctor of internal and sexual medicine, showed that the sexual response of men,…
From the Harvard University press release: A new report released today suggests that many young people struggle with developing healthy romantic relationships and that rates of misogyny and sexual harassment among teens and young adults…
From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology press release: Oxytocin is often called the “love hormone” or “cuddle chemical,” but American and Norwegian researchers have found out that it may as well be called a…
From the Baylor University press release: Consider these scenarios. You’re focused on an important project at work and your phone rings. It’s your spouse. You’ve just finished dinner with your family and you’re cleaning up…