Violent television programming impedes the viewer's memory of the commercial messages run during the program, according to new research in the December issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, published by the American Psychological Association.
A major illness or disability often not only changes everything for an individual who has gone through such and event. It also can likely disrupt that person's relationships, according to research at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Copycat offenders rarely have a political message when they commit an act such as the recent anthrax letter scares, according to a Ball State University professor.
Giving a puppy or kitten to a child as a Christmas present is not in the best interest of the youngster or the animal, says a Ball State University psychologist.
An archivist at the University at Buffalo, speaks for an international network of archivists when he says that because of the explosion in information technologies, the late 20th century will be one of the worst-documented periods in history.
Prejudice strikes most people as a learned behavior, but a study of grade school kids exposes prejudice as a much cagier beast, waiting to rear its head at the slightest provocation, according to a UW-Madison psychology professor.
New research finds that HIV-positive gay men who find meaning from the death of a partner or close friend to AIDS may have improved immune functioning and live longer than HIV-positive gay men who are less successful in coping with this type of loss, according to UCLA researchers.
Walt Disney's early films, among the most popular in moviemaking history, are every bit as obsessed with death as any 1990s blockbuster, according to a Emory University professor.
The University of Chicago has received a $5 million endowment gift from Irving B. Harris to establish the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy.
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute recently received a Mellon Foundation grant of $375,000 and matching funds of $300,000 from an anonymous donor.
High school students have discovered a previously unidentified celestial object in the Kuiper Belt using images from the National Science Foundation's 4-meter Blanco Telescope in Chile.
In contrast to research saying that parents are not important in determining teens' behavior,a new study shows a strong connection between teens' relationship with their parents and how they interact with peers. Teens who do not feel close to their parents do not respond to firm discipline, the study also shows.
If Andy Warhol were alive, chances are he'd be on the art world's bleeding edge, dipping into a high-tech, electronic palette to create art that can be seen -- and maybe even heard -- but can't be purchased in any gallery.
A little change in attitude can calm the butterflies in your stomach before a job interview or business presentation, says a Purdue communications professor.
A series of experiments that a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut, has conducted suggest that very often first impressions have a surprising degree of validity.
The American Association for Higher Education will host a conference supported by the National Science Foundation on reform efforts in science, mathematics, engineering and technology education in colleges and universities.
Satellite images, 18th century maps and a city plan over 8,000 years old form part of a collection of rare and unusual maps that a professor of history at UIC, has chosen to help high school teachers "tell the story of world history."
Title 1, a federal education program for disadvantaged students, is up for renewal next year. The new issue of the "Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk" examines the latest research on Title 1, including studies demonstrating when the program is effective and when it is not.
Temple University has a number of faculty experts who are available to comment on the developing crisis in the Middle East.
Johns Hopkins University will use the largest part of a recent $45 million gift to increase scholarships for next year's freshmen 25 percent and cut their debt at graduation by more than a third.
A technical graphics professor in the School of Technology at Purdue University has found a way to take some of the trepidation out of navigating the school's West Lafayette campus. Using a software program that until recently has been applied almost exclusively to creating animated computer games, James Mohler has designed a two-dimensional, interactive map that allows a "virtual visit" by way of the World Wide Web.
DreamWorks will bring Moses, the Hebrew leader who led Israel out of captivity, to life in its new film, The Prince of Egypt, to be released nationwide December 18. Moses made waves long before he became an animated hero. In his new book, Israel in Egypt, Professor James Hoffmeier gives compelling evidence that the biblical record of Moses and the Exodus is true.
A new resource for community colleges was announced Nov. 11, 1998 at Cornell. The Institute for Community College Development is based at Cornell. Created through collaborative efforts by the State University of New York (SUNY), Cornell and community college presidents, the institute will study educational, social and financial issues of importance to community colleges.
The aggressive marketing and promotion of infant formula in this country and worldwide violate a basic human right of mothers and babies to give and receive breastmilk, and endangers health of infants worldwide, says Michael Latham, M.D., MPH, professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University. He called for legislation to curb industry marketing practices to promote formula and to institute warning labels outlining the major hazards related to not breastfeeding.
From the 13,000 volunteers who count birds for science in the continentwide Project FeederWatch, Cornell University ornithologists have collected solutions for birders who prefer not to count squirrels.
More students will be able to live on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus within two years thanks to the generosity of the Baltimore-based Erickson Foundation, and the gift could change how charitable foundations operate.
Californians are more likely to attend arts events and activities compared to other Americans, according to a just released survey conducted by the University of San Francisco and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The brutal murders of a gay man in Wyoming and an African-American man in Texas earlier this year are forcing many states to expand or add anti-hate crimes laws, says a Ball State University educator.
Most people think that Americans have celebrated Thanksgiving ever since that first harvest feast where pilgrims and Indians dined together in a symbolic gesture of sharing and ethnic harmony. It's a wonderful story, but, unfortunately, it's just a story.
The woman who arranged Oscar Schindler's emigration to Argentina and who herself was intimately involved in some of the earliest efforts to aid victims of the Nazis has written a history of what she considers to be the greatest communal humanitarian effort in the history of Anglo-Jewry. Marked by heroism, generosity and grinding hard work, the effort "resulted in the saving of thousands of lives," writes Amy Zahl Gottlieb.
Some 30 students from five continents are headed to Bangkok in December, six months after attending a three-week workshop there. In a sense, however, they never left; their training has continued, and their classmates and instructors have been with them since June.
How many dreams have been dashed by the frustration of learning math? How many kids have been made to feel dumb because math, at some point, just stopped making sense?
Convited sexual offenders who are in their 40s, married and who earn at least $11 per hour are most likely to make it through half-way house treatment programs.
Nearly three-fourths of history professors are not satisfied with their current level of using technology in their teaching, according to a survey conducted by a DePauw University history prof and executive director of the American Association for History and Computing.
A recent study of 400 divorcing couples contains a number of surprising findings about divorce, among them the conclusion that there is little difference in how fathers and mothers fare economically after divorce, contradicting earlier studies. A new book, Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths claims to correct past data errors.
A majority of the nation's television news directors say the threat of being sued is producing a major chilling effect on daily news coverage, according to a national survey conducted by the University of Miami.
Middle and high school students who participate in sports express less hostility toward their classmates and are more likely to graduate from high school and go on to college, according to the preliminary results of an ongoing national study.
American children spend 1.3 hours a week reading, 1.7 hours studying, and 12 hours a week---one- quarter of their free time---watching television, according to a University of Michigan study that provides the first look since 1981 at how U.S. children spend their time.
People who feel as if their hearts are beating louder than thunder with every severe storm watch and warning may have help in dealing with their fear of severe weather, thanks to a unique project that teams a University of Iowa professor and a noted Iowa meteorologist.
A University of Iowa law professor who filed a friends of the court brief supporting a Monroe, Iowa, man's claim that he was unreasonably searched by a Newton police officer in 1996, says the U.S. Supreme Court justices will likely rule in the man's favor.
In a recent study appearing in the American Psychological Association's November issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that as people get older, they become happier not sadder, psychologists from Fordham University and the University of Warsaw (Poland) report.
Researchers at Wittenberg University and Case Western Reserve University reported in the November issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, on three studies to determine the effect of supportive audiences on skilled performance.
We should be as concerned about where our teenagers work as we are about their schools because youth employment can have either profoundly positive or disastrous effects on the nation's teen work force. Potential youth workplaces should obtain "seals of approval" before adolescents ever work in them, says Stephen Hamilton of Cornell University, who worked on the National Research Council Institute of Medicine report, "Protecting Youth at Work."
If you're in an emergency situation, the chances of you receiving help from witnesses may depend on your skin color and the number of bystanders. So says John Dovidio, professor of psychology at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY.
Today's Hamilton College students are taking to swing dancing with the same enthusiasm their great-grandparents exhibited in the 1920s and 30s.
In his recently released book, "Diversity and Unity," Martin Patchen, professor of sociology, takes a look at different approaches to handling racial and ethnic diversity. While not advocating any one approach, Patchen does point out a middle ground.
Non-computer buffs may think of the Internet as a whole other world. According to a Texas A&M University professor, they're right. Its a real world where where everyone is part of a community so real it can even be mapped.
As Minnesota prepares for a pro wrestler governor, a Northwestern University mathematician says voting system is un-democratic in a three-way race.
Making sense of rural America's future, as well as its past and present, is the mission of Kenyon College's new Rural Life Center (RLC), which has established itself at Kenyon College to promote education, scholarship, and public projects about rural life. The center debuts at a critical time for Ohio's Knox County, which faces development pressures from metropolitan areas.
Two University of Arizona psychologists have experimental data to show that things that were never experienced are easier to "remember" than things that were.
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