From the Cornell University press release via EurekAlert!: Preschoolers universally recognize that one’s choices are not always free – that our decisions may be constrained by social obligations to be nice to others or follow…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: People who experience warmer, more upbeat emotions may have better physical health because they make more social connections, according to a new study published in Psychological Science,…
From the University of Missouri press release via EurekAlert!: Sporting events can bring a community together, such as when the Louisville Cardinals won the NCAA championship and University of Louisville campus was filled with camaraderie.…
From the PLoS press release via ScienceDaily: A laugh may signal mockery, humor, joy or simply be a response to tickling, but each kind of laughter conveys a wealth of auditory and social information. These…
From the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center press release via EurekAlert!: Research conducted by Xiao-Cheng Wu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the Louisiana Tumor Registry at the LSU Health Sciences Center New…
From the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. press release via HealthCanal: More than 800 million people worldwide use the social networking site Facebook, and 93% of college students have an active Facebook account, according to a…
From the University of Notre Dame press release via EurekAlert!: Women who engage in “fat talk” — the self-disparaging remarks girls and women make in relation to eating, exercise or their bodies — are less…
From the AFTAU press release via EurekAlert!: Cases of type 2 diabetes continue to rise in the US. And while the development of the disease is more commonly associated with risk factors such as obesity,…
From the University of Luxembourg press release via AlphaGalileo: Schools may be a step closer towards the development of effective strategies to prevent violent behaviour. New research from the University of Luxembourg shows that there…
From the NYU press release via Newswise: Examining social factors is vital to better explaining and understanding the dramatic rise in the number of Americans diagnosed with mental disorders in recent years, according to an…