It's long been thought that the common phobias of snakes and spiders are reminders of homo sapiens' primal past. Now new studies suggest that human perception evolved to accurately and efficiently spot these environmental threats.
At the University of Arizona, new psychological research gives hope to people who fear they'll lose their memory as they age. Researchers have found that contrary to popular belief, only some people over 65 suffer greater losses in "source (contextual) memory" than in memory for facts and items.
"This summer I found poverty in rural America, and it grabbed me by the shoulders and shouted at me." Those are the words Ian H. Thomson, now a second-year law student at Brigham Young University, used to describe his summer public interest law internship with the Migrant Farmworker Law Unit of Idaho Legal Aid Services, Inc.
1) Bush faces challenges on immigration issues. 2) Temple leads the way for people with disabilities. 3) Microsoft decision promotes competition. 4) Factors to fight the "freshman 15."
According to the FBI, car theft is a $7.5 billion business.
Opening an archeological site to the public can lead to vandalism and destruction, but a new plan from the Univ. of Arkansas and Yarmouk University may help preserve Jordan's rich cultural heritage by bringing millions of people to see it each year.
A new nationwide study reveals why more and more young disabled people are becoming politically involved and shows the best way of promoting activism in the disability community.
People are reinvigorating their ties to the land both practically and in the ways they think about themselves and their communities, a University of Illinois law professor argues in a forthcoming book.
Emotional baggage from a day's work may arrive home with dad, but it gives way to relaxation with family, including regular, lengthy close-knit discussions with the kids.
Ending workplace discrimination against people with disabilities was a key aim of the Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990.
"In striking contrast to the other arts, architecture remains all too homogeneous -- too male, too pale," a University of Illinois professor notes in "Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession" (UI Press).
Many wives of professional male athletes have to consider the possibility of their husbands' infidelity, particularly during a long season with numerous road trips. How they handle their fear and stress varies and may depend on their motivation for marriage.
Are Asian Americans troubled by social anxieties and in need of therapy more than their white counterparts?
It's not every day you meet someone who has gone hunting with a president of the United States. But a history professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia has done just that and has plenty of stories to share.
Although controversy surrounding affirmative action continues to surface in the media, a study co-authored by a Penn State professor of organizational behavior notes particular features of affirmative action programs matter more than others.
Sarah Lawrence College will host a conference on race and identity October 12-13, 2001, bringing together prominent African American psychologists, and will honor the work of Kenneth Clark.
Five members of Southern Methodist University's Department of Political Science in Dedman College will present the findings of their research at the 97th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco this week.
According to the U.S. Census, Hispanic immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the population.
The release of Susanna Thomas from an Italian jail brought Quakerism into the media spotlight. But a historian's new book about the religious sect shows that the Society of Friends was not always as committed to pacifism as it is today.
Most working people regard Labor Day as "just another day off," laments labor historian Dana Frank, coauthor of a new book that captures the drama and grief of three major labor clashes in the United States.
The information-age translates into all-time lows of physical activity for an estimated 50 percent of today's computer-kids. Parent and child exercising together reduces family conflicts over fitness, works to help obese teens, pre-teens lose weight, build self-esteem.
A new test that measures what people see when viewing discordant images in the right and left eyes has produced important new clues about the location of some of the brain activity underlying visual consciousness.
About 21 percent of adolescents surveyed in middle school in Oakland, California reported being depressed enough to consider suicide. The majority of these youths also used drugs and engaged in illegal activities.
Cognitive researchers can now recommend a tool that can keep older drivers on the road longer and safer by measuring and even improving their visual information processing, an important measure of driving ability.
In today's digital economy, technology is drawing the world closer together, or perhaps it is more accurate to say that technology is drawing some parts of the world closer together. Unfortunately, the advancement of technology is leaving in its wake an ever-increasing gap between the "haves" and "have-nots."
A study conducted by Stanford Graduate School of Business shows that the best protection against cultural misinterpretations is to implement procedures that allow managers to check their interpretations against those of others who are culturally different.
Society may honor homemakers but it's the wage-earner who is more likely to control household spending. Economists found evidence that wives gain more influence after their husbands retire.
A new study suggests that hypnosis doesn't help people recall events more accurately - but it does tend to make people more confident of their inaccurate memories.
Nearly one in ten girls and one in twenty boys report experiencing violence and/or being raped on a date, according to a survey of 81,247 ninth and twelfth grade boys and girls in Minnesota public schools.
Transracial adoptees' exposure and competence in their birth culture may not be necessary for good psychological adjustment, according to a study involving young adult transracial adoptees.
The benefits of sports involvement may be different for youths growing up in urban vs. rural areas, according to the results of two studies.
1. Hoarding by the Elderly 2. Death: Is it a choice? Values in end-of-life decisions. 3. Reduced Home Health Care Services and Ethical Dilemmas
The National Conference of Black Mayors, Inc. has endorsed the Act to Leave No Child Behind (S.940 and H.R. 1990), the comprehensive legislation for America's children introduced in May by Senator Chris Dodd and Representative George Miller at a press conference.
Marketing efforts aimed at youngsters may indeed be robbing children of their childhood and making kids more materialistic, suggest results from a national survey led by a Penn State researcher.
Young adolescents who participate in religious activities evaluated themselves more positively than youths who don't participate in religious activities, according to a national survey of eighth graders that examined self-esteem of early adolescents.
It's back-to-school season as parents across the country scramble to prepare their children. Now in addition to instructions on street safety, parents should be instructing their children on the finer points of street marketing if they do not want their children exposed to age-restricted material. A study conducted by a Stanford Business School faculty member reveals why.
In families where welfare-to-work programs have resulted in reduced family income, children are more likely to suffer negative effects according to a recent Children's Defense Fund study. The report finds that programs that are most helpful to children are those that raise family income and economic security.
The number of prisoners nationwide increases more under Republican presidents than it does when a Democrat leads the country, according to a new study that looked at 52 years of data.
New research sheds light on the cruel fate that awaited official scribes for Maya kings who had been conquered by rivals. These scribes - the rough equivalent of today's public relations writers - would have their fingers broken and then be executed.
A Penn State expert on probabilistic simulation thinks that the large number of shark attacks that recently took place in Florida might be explained through probability theory.
In a unanimous resolution, the Council of the American Sociological Association (ASA) called upon the U.S. government to strengthen its resolve to protect the safety and well-being of scholars engaged in scientific research in countries where basic freedoms do not exist.
At the beginning of the 1990s, black men working in the most highly paid private sector jobs earned 20 percent less than similar white workers, a racial disparity far greater than in lower paid jobs, according to a recent study by Eric Grodsky and Devah Pager, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On August 19, Director of the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Greg Koski, will discuss social science research involving human subjects and the ethics involved at the American Sociological Association's Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA.
Douglas S. Massey, President of the American Sociological Association (ASA), presented dramatic and thought-provoking ideas about directions of human societies in his Presidential address to the 2001 Annual Meeting of the ASA.
The single greatest issue raised by families today is that they don't have enough time to spend as a family doing things they enjoy.
Knowing why an athlete takes a nutritional supplement can possibly prevent needless deaths and injuries.
A Cornell University study shows that jury awards for punitive damages are no larger in relation to compensatory awards and no more frequent than judges' awards. The finding contradicts popular opinion and a previous, less comprehensive study by other researchers.
Although there is little doubt that the American economy has been and continues to be weak, it appears to have entered just a low-growth phase, rather than a full-blown recession, say University of Michigan economists.
Older adults actually use different regions of the brain than younger adults to perform the same memory and information processing tasks, according to University of Michigan research to be presented Aug. 24 at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco.
Imagine pinpointing long-buried archeological sites, based on the way sunlight hits a slope or on the number of calories used to transport water from a stream. Using innovative mapping techniques, researchers are doing just that - with startling accuracy.
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