From the International Communication Association press release: Your food, your vacation, your carefully curated life — all posted for your friends in a filtered image. Some may scoff at adolescents’ use of social media networks…
From the BYU press release: Thanks to a national initiative, salad bars are showing up in public schools across the country. Now a Brigham Young University researcher is trying to nail down how to get…
From the American Academy of Pediatrics media release: It’s known that adverse childhood experiences carry over into adult life, but a new study is focusing on the effect of these experiences in the childhood years. For an…
From the Association for Psychological Science media release: Over time, students’ personal values become more similar to those of their school principal, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Associational for Psychological…
From the Research Society on Alcoholism media release: Adolescence can be a challenging time for both young people and their parents. Adolescents often face temptations to experiment with various substances and, unfortunately, this is the time…
From the Chapman University media release: Chapman University has just published the results of a national study on the factors linked to satisfaction with appearance and weight. In a survey of more than 12,000 Americans adults,…
From the National Academy of Sciences media release: Bullying is a serious public health problem, with significant short- and long-term psychological consequences for both the targets and perpetrators of such behavior, and requires a commitment to…
From the The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine media release: By turning skin cells into brain neurons, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified that certain tiny…
From the Cornell Food & Brand Lab media release: When estimating portion size, we may be more influenced by food images on the packaging than by the listed serving size leading us to serve more than…
From the Texas A&M University media release: “You missed out.” Is there another sentence that could strike such anxiety in the hearts of young people? Other than “We need to talk,” of course. It’s true, though,…