From the Cornell Food & Brand Lab press release via EurekAlert!: Popeye inspired a generation of growing Baby Boomers to eat its spinach. Today, role models such as Batman can prompt children to develop their…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release via EurekAlert!: Intuitively it simply makes sense: exposure to sexual content in movies at an early age probably influences adolescents’ sexual behavior. And yet, even though a…
From the University of Montreal press release via Newswise: Each hour of TV watched by a two- to four-year- old contributes to his or her waist circumference by the end of grade 4 and his…
From the Pennsylvania State University press release via Physorg: Whether it rains or shines might actually have an impact on how journalists cover the Olympics, according to researchers at Penn State. Using coverage of the…
From the Iowa State University press release via HealthCanal: The April suicide of 14-year-old Kenneth Weishuhn Jr. — a South O’Brien High School (Paulina, Iowa) student who was reportedly teased and bullied by classmates —…
From the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: New research from Norris Cotton Cancer Center estimates, for the first time, the impact of an R rating for movie smoking. James Sargent, MD, co-director of…
From the Oxford University press release via Physorg: A report shows that Germans still prefer a newspaper, while online news has overtaken print and TV news as the most frequently used medium in the UK…
From the Kansas State University press release: When singer Whitney Houston died in February, expressions of grief and solidarity surfaced quickly. Facebook status updates, tweets and related postings captured shared expressions of mourning for a…
From the University of Gothenburg press release via Physorg: Over 60 per cent of Swedish young people today have a smartphone, and in addition to telephoning and messaging, they use them to communicate via social…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via AlphaGalileo: Media violence does have an effect on children’s behaviour and a concerted public health response involving parents, professionals, the media and policymakers is needed to…