From the Aalto University press release: Using anonymous mobile phone data, Aalto University doctoral researcher Talayeh Aledavood has tapped into patterns in people’s behaviour. She has found out that our ‘chronotypes‘ — our inherent periods…
From the University of Texas at Dallas press release: The nation’s 31 million children growing up in homes with low socioeconomic status have, on average, significantly smaller vocabularies compared with their peers. A new study…
From the University of Notre Dame press release: Online social networking has revolutionized the way people communicate and interact with one another, despite idiosyncrasies we all love to hate — think top-10 lists of the…
From the Brigham and Women’s Hospital press release: Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital led by Ying Bao, MD, ScD, an epidemiologist in BWH’s Channing Division of Network Medicine and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical…
From the University at Buffalo press release: Everyone needs an occasional break from the social ramble, though spending too much time alone can be unhealthy and there is growing evidence that the psychosocial effects of…
From the Elsevier press release: If you’re materialistic, you’re likely to use Facebook more frequently and intensely. A new paper in Heliyon reveals that materialistic people see and treat their Facebook friends as “digital objects,” and have…
From the Northwestern University press release: Researchers have cast doubt on a widely-held belief that connects family income with cognitive development, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A…
From the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences press release: Spending time together with family may help strengthen the family bond, but new research from the University of Illinois shows that…
From the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute press release: A comprehensive review of research on several measures of the quality of early childhood education suggests that the instructional practices of preschool teachers have the…
From the National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine press release: Research by a group of scientists at the Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore…