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… Read more »
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…. Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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…. Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
