From the Indiana University press release via EurekAlert!: What types of public messages will most likely deter drug and alcohol abuse or dissuade people from engaging in risky behavior? Negatively framed messages may not be…
From the Washington State University press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists and business people have known for decades that certain scents—pine boughs at Christmas, baked cookies in a house for sale—can get customers in the buying…
From the Radiological Society of North America press release via EurekAlert!: Mental activities like reading and writing can preserve structural integrity in the brains of older people, according to a new study presented today at…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Dogs learning to associate words with objects form these associations in different ways than humans do, according to research published November 21 in the open…
From the UC Santa Barbara press release via EurekAlert!: When your neighbor asks to borrow a cup of sugar and you readily comply, is your positive response a function of the give and take that…
From the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health press release via EurekAlert!: Results of a new study by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health indicate that a developmental pattern of impulsiveness…
From the AFTAU press release via EurekAlert!: As Internet access becomes increasingly widespread, so do related psychopathologies such as Internet addiction and delusions related to the technology and to virtual relationships. Computer communications such as…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Humans are much more inclined to cooperate than are their closest evolutionary relatives. The prevailing wisdom about why this is true has long been…
From the Ohio State University press release by Jeff Grabmeier via EurekAlert!: For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak coming near age 65, according…
From the Lifespan press release via EurekAlert!: Most people are faced with embarrassment or humiliation at some point in their lives. Maybe they get nervous before a big presentation to the bosses at work. Maybe…