From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via ScienceDaily: Consumers are more likely to change their behavior if they voluntarily commit to changing rather than being told what to do, according to a…
From the University of Chicago press release via Newswise: Many high-achieving students experience math anxiety at a young age — a problem that can follow them throughout their lives, new research at the University of…
From the University of Iowa press release by Tom Snee via ScienceDaily: When stock analysts aren’t sure how to assess the earnings of a hard to value firm, they often just predict those earnings will…
From the Brown University press release via ScienceDaily: Abstinence from smoking seems to affect teens differently than adults in a couple of ways, but a new study provides evidence that most of the psychological difficulties…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Sex can be messy, but most people don’t seem to mind too much, and new results reported Sep. 12 in the open access journal PLOS…
From the RCN Publishing Company press release via AlphaGalileo: The process of grieving can be compared to the workings of a pinball machine, where mourners’ movement between different stages of grief such as shock and…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release by Chris Barncard via ScienceDaily: Stress has long been pegged as the enemy of attention, disrupting focus and doing substantial damage to working memory — the short-term juggling…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release: Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have found new links between a protein that controls our urge to eat and brain cells involved in the development of alcoholism.…
From the Boston Children’s Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: A growing body of research shows that children who suffer severe neglect and social isolation have cognitive and social impairments as adults. A study from Boston…
From the IOS Press BV press release via AlphaGalileo: Forgetfulness, lack of orientation, cognitive decline… about 700, 000 Germans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Now researchers from the University of Ulm, among them the Epidemiologist…