From the Rotman School of Management press release via EurekAlert!: If you’re a small charity looking for some corporate largesse, pegging your ask to a big morale-boosting event planned for your community may help seal…
From the Concordia University press release: Craig Kielburger was only 12 years old when he travelled to India to see the plight of child laborers first hand. 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai took a stand against the…
From the Virginia Tech press release via EurekAlert!: Community solidarity and support have remarkable benefits for people coping with traumatic mass shootings, according to an American-Finnish research study recently published by the University of Turku.…
From the Pennsylvania State University press release via EurekAlert!: Whether bloggers are writing to change the world, or just discussing a bad break-up, they may get an extra boost of motivation from traffic-measuring and interactive…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: New research suggests that overall happiness in life is more related to how much you are respected and admired by those around you, not to the status…
From the Kansas State University press release via HealthCanal: Everywhere you look there are troublemaking teenagers with nothing better to do this summer than cruise around town in packs. That’s a statement that makes Elaine…
From the UC Berkeley press release: Reinforcing that the best things in life are free, a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that online freebie-exchange communities such as “Freecycle” and “Couchsurfing” foster greater…
From the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) press release: Research shows that street furniture, barriers, parks, public spaces and neighbourhood architecture can stir up powerful emotions in local residents. This should be taken into…
From the North Carolina State University press release: Are you connected to college friends on Facebook? Research from North Carolina State University shows that these social networks tend to form around graduation year or university…