From the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto press release: Tax collectors and insurance agencies trying to boost honest reporting could improve compliance simply by asking people to sign their forms at…
From the UCSF press release via EurekAlert!: Mental health professionals, who often are tasked with evaluating and managing the risk of violence by their patients, may benefit from a simple tool to more accurately make…
From the Georgia Health Sciences University press release via EurekAlert!: A 10-week program that fits easily into the high school curriculum could give students a lifetime of less anger and lower blood pressure, researchers report.…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release via EurekAlert!: How does one’s experience of an event get translated into a memory that can be accessed months, even years later? A team led by University of…
From the Elsevier Health Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: The World Health Organization recently recognized environmental noise as harmful pollution, with adverse psychosocial and physiological effects on public health. A new study of noise pollution…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release via Newswise: Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, Professor of Neurosciences and Physiology/Biophysics, and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case…
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: With the discovery that the unconscious mind plays a key role in the placebo effect, researchers have identified a novel mechanism that helps explain…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release via ScienceDaily: Joking around can land us in hot water. Even the professionals often shoot themselves comedically in the foot. Last month, comedian Jeffrey Ross’s routine at…
From the University of Ulster press release via ScienceDaily: Time spent on social networking sites comes at the expense of other activities — including physical activity, new research by the University of Ulster has revealed.…
From the University of Notre Dame press release by Susan Guibert via ScienceDaily: Mothers aren’t the only ones who are biologically adapted to respond to children. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows…