From the Ohio State University press release: You can quit work commitments if you want — but some of them never really leave you, new research suggests. In a study of 420 employees representing a…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release: A new study has found that 5- to 6-year-olds view people’s environments, not their skin color, as the most important determinant of their behavior and…
From the University of Leiden press release: Previous research has shown that extreme shyness is hereditary, but because shyness is such a broad concept it is difficult to identify specific genes. Anita Harrewijn has discovered…
From the Karlstad University press release: It is becoming increasingly common for employees to share the workplace with their colleagues in large open-plan office areas. In this way, companies and organizations want to save money,…
From the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UVA) press release: Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are one step closer to understanding how infants become securely attached to their parents. In a new study published last…
From the Southern Methodist University press release: A low-budget field experiment to tackle the lack of women in the male-dominated field of economics has been surprisingly effective, says the study’s author, an economist at Southern…
From the University of Washington press release: Touch is the first of the five senses to develop, yet scientists know far less about the baby’s brain response to touch than to, say, the sight of…
From the University of York press release: Researchers at the University of York have found no evidence to support the theory that video games make players more violent. In a series of experiments, with more…
From the Uni Research press release: Young people with shared residency after their parents’ divorce have fewer mental problems than young people with other residency arrangements. This was the conclusion researchers at RKBU Vest (Regional…
From the Elsevier press release: The most common subtypes of bipolar disorder, bipolar I and bipolar II, stem — at least in part — from different biological causes, according to a new study published in Biological…