From the Johns Hopkins University media release: When evaluating the same black student, white teachers expect significantly less academic success than black teachers, a new study concludes. This is especially true for black boys. When a…
From the Wellesley College media release: As the science community reels from ongoing revelations of sexual harassment and discrimination, a new study in Psychology of Women Quarterly, by Wellesley College researcher Linda Carli, offers important clues…
From the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development media release: Children with Cushing syndrome may be at higher risk for suicide as well as for depression, anxiety and other mental health…
From the University of Missouri-Columbia media release: Considerable attention has been paid to how boys’ educational achievements in science and math compare to girls’ accomplishments in those areas, often leading to the assumption that boys outperform…
From the University of Washington media release: Adults often form fast opinions about each other’s personalities, especially when it comes to negative traits. If we see someone argue with another driver over a parking space, for…
From the Kansas State University media release: Hollywood-style films may control viewers’ attention more than originally thought, according to a Kansas State University researcher. Lester Loschky, associate professor of psychological sciences, recently published “What Would Jaws…
From the Association for Psychological Science media release: While boys generally do better than girls in science and math**, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic. A new study published in Psychological Science, a…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign media release: In spite of the overwhelming evidence of a skills deficit, a depressed middle class and growing inequality, the state of Illinois continues to underinvest in public higher…
From the University of Sussex media release: Computers are able to read a person’s body language to tell whether they are bored or interested in what they see on the screen, according to a new study…
From the PLOS media release: People reflecting on a roundtrip walk estimated that the return trip took less time than the outward trip, according to a study published June 10, 2015 in the open-access journal…