Children in the sixth grade may suffer adverse cognitive, behavioral and emotional consequences due to an increased risk of being chronically sleep deprived, according to a new study in the May Developmental Psychology.
1- Alcohol plays a role in most instances of fan violence; 2- As summer travel season approaches, minorities still need to be leery of racial profiling by police; 3- Interest rate hikes hit poor the most.
Two University of Michigan professors have devised an approach to "harnessing" complexity, turning it into a tool for desirable change.
"When Your Retirement Plan Changes," an online booklet from the American Academy of Actuaries, helps you understand how changes to your pension can affect retirement planning.
"Powwow 2000: Remembering Carlisle Indian School" will be a gathering of alumni and their descendents of the country's first off-reservation boarding school for Native American children and will draw people from all over the country, says a Swarthmore College instructor of English.
A new study finds that young, single women maintain conservative attitudes about marriage despite the fact that their mothers advocate personal and financial independence.
To prevent disrespect of religion from discouraging patients from seeking professional help, BYU psychologists have compiled a APA handbook that informs mental health care practitioners about the various spiritual beliefs, rituals and traditions of their clients.
Cultivating positive emotions produces an upward spiral that broadens habitual modes of thinking and acting, and builds personal resources for coping, says Barbara L. Fredrickson, a University of Michigan assistant professor of psychology who received the Templeton Positive Psychology Prize for her innovative broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.
A University of Michigan researcher has received the largest monetary prize ever awarded in the field of psychology for creating a new theory explaining the beneficial effects of positive emotion.
A study of more than 10,000 mother-infant pairs has found that more than one-fifth of one-month old babies shared a bed with their parents for most of the night. Bed sharing was more common among infants being breastfed or those born to young, unmarried, or low-income women.
The state of youth in Chicago and across the nation will be explored at a one-day community forum to take place May 18 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Why should recent elections in faraway Taiwan concern Americans? One of the top scholars on Taiwan-China-U.S. policy shows why.
Princeton researchers found that many more people than previously thought are likely to identify with more than one race in the 2000 census; the results of the count may pose new challenges for making civil rights policies and tracking inequalities (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5-16-00).
Youths convicted in juvenile court had significantly higher mean concentrations of lead in their bones, compared with non-delinquent controls. Results held for whites and African Americans, males and females.
It is said that hindsight is 20-20. According to new research, hindsight bias -- the way our impression of how we acted or would have acted changes when we learn the outcome of an event -- is actually a by-product of a cognitive mechanism that allows us to unclutter our minds by discarding inaccurate information and embracing that which is correct.
Allegations made by child victims of sexual abuse closely match the confessions of perpetrators. In addition, physical exams are unreliable indicators of sexual abuse.
From 1988 to 1997, 95 percent of the 250 highest-grossing motion pictures depicted tobacco use and more than half the movies analyzed featured tobacco use by a major character; nearly 70 percent of tobacco use involved cigarettes, 20 percent involved cigars.
Six-year-old children had high exposures to violent events over a 12-month period, and those witnessing violence were more likely to have behavior problems.
Preschool children who frequently watch violent television shows or play violent video games are much more likely to engage in aggressive, destructive, and antisocial behavior.
A study of 113 inner-city children found that by the age of 7, 74 percent had heard guns being shot and 13 percent had seen someone in their home get shot or stabbed. Children with more exposure to violence had lower grade-point averages, lower self-esteem and greater depression and anxiety.
Children with fathers in their lives learn better, have higher self-esteem and show fewer signs of depression than do children without fathers. The study examined from a child's perspective the role a father plays in the behavioral and mental development of his children.
A study of 290 women found no difference in the percentage of women reporting domestic violence, whether or not the women were told of a law mandating physicians to report such incidents to a state agency.
1- The conditions that created the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia 15 years ago still exist; 2- Graduation is just days away but already many Temple students have great jobs; 3- High-tech firms are looking for liberal arts grads.
A national survey of more than 6,700 adolescents in grades 5-12 found that adolescents who have been sexually abused are more likely to smoke, drink, use drugs, have disordered eating habits, and consider suicide than those who have not.
In planning a wedding, stick to daily routines to control stress; think about managing time and finances better, develop a plan of action, take smaller bites, manage money and other resources more realistically and avoid excessive debt, says a Texas Tech Medical Center professional.
According to a new scientific study, Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, and they all share a common genetic lineage that stretches back thousands of years (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5-9-00).
King Croesus' Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of Gold, by Cornell University archaeologist Andrew Ramage and Paul Craddock of the British Museum, documents the excavation in Sardis, Turkey, of a gold refinery that belonged to legendary Lydian emperor King Croesus, the world's first millionaire.
A program meant to teach young children basic safety skills seems to lack the desired effect, a new Ohio State study suggests (Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine).
Are consumers manipulated into buying things they don't want? BU history professor Regina Blaszczyk, in "Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning," reveals that leading manufacturers of home goods devote considerable effort to learn their customers' priorities and preferences.
Don't look for the one "true" interpretation of the Second Amendment -- the controversial amendment concerning the right to bear arms -- because it doesn't exist, according to an Ohio State scholar who edited a new book on the topic.
The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting a national conference May 22-24 to explore future trends in poverty issues.
With healthcare and work environments changing at light speed, psychologists are examining the possibility of having prescription privileges, the advantages and disadvantages of online therapy, ways to reduce workplace violence and discrimination and the medical and societal implications of gene therapy.
If a common heritage conferred peace, then the history of conflict in the Middle East may have been resolved years ago. For, according to a new study, Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, and they all share a common genetic lineage that stretches back thousands of years.
The Islamic rebel group Abu Sayyaf, which is fighting for an independent homeland in the Philippines, has brought a wave of terror to that country.
A new University of Michigan study not only corroborates prior research that African Americans are more likely than whites to be portrayed as criminals on television news, it also surprisingly reveals that Latinos are less likely to be depicted as perpetrators---when compared with actual crime statistics.
How is a social problem "racialized?" With figurative language, among other things. So says David Wilson, the author of a new study that analyzes the technique one political extreme uses to racialize one social problem.
In his new volume of poetry, Laurence Lieberman turns once again to the rich mythology of his spiritual home, the Caribbean Islands -- an enchanted realm, and where even daily life offers myriad opportunities for magic, metamorphosis, rebirth.
Limiting the immunity of dictators is a fine idea, but who should do the job? The case of Gen. Augusto Pinochet highlights the clash between state sovereign immunity and the need to punish and deter world leaders who behave badly.
In the past 50 years, a number of changes have taken place in rural communities. Wal-Marts have replaced local five-and-dimes and corporate agriculture has displaced the family farm. Through it all, the rural church has remained, and its importance is growing.
This summer, the history department at the University of Illinois won't just be teaching history, it will be making it, by sending four groups of professors and students to Cuba, France, India and Russia, doubling its typical summer overseas courses.
Certain community characteristics, including higher rates of child abuse, seem to be related to increased reported or substantiated elder abuse, according to a University of Iowa Health Care study that examined 10 years of statewide data (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 5-00).
The violence by Islamic rebels in the southern Philippines this week is said to be the worst in at least four years. The rebels' plight is the subject of a recent book written by a UAB professor who spent years investigating the meaning and motivations for the separatist movements.
Maurice Isserman, a Hamilton College professor of history, is the author of The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, which follows Harrington's life from its beginnings in the Catholic Worker movement to his evolution as a thinker.
A mother's care likely has a lot of do with how a youngster handles stress later on -- stresses like a new stable, or wearing a saddle. Michigan State University researchers examine the impact mothers have on their offspring's coping ability.
A University of Illinois at Chicago researcher uses pre-outcome judgments of morality and procedural fairness to predict people's reactions to political and social controversy -- in this case, people's opinions regarding what happens to Elian Gonzalez.
Criminologists and landscape architects will put their heads together over the newest discoveries in "Environment and Crime" during the annual meeting of the Environmental Design Research Association, May 10-14, in San Francisco.
Why do we do the things we do? Is our daily behavior essentially a reaction to outside occurrences? Such are the questions that drive Gary Cziko, University of Illinois professor of educational psychology, in his new book, "The Things We Do."
An Ursinus College senior history major never expected her honors research on the history of the American birth control pill to uncover a potential threat to women's health: young women in the 15-24 age range who have never been pregnant are both most at-risk for breast cancer and most likely to use the pill.
ADDitude: The Happy, Healthy Lifestyle Magazine for People with ADD launches in mid-May with a new twist on attention deficit disorder: success. "We're out to show that people with ADD have enormous energy, talent, and creativity," says magazine founder and editor Ellen Kingsley.
Much of today's housework, particularly scrubbing and mopping, are just as tiring as they were 50 years ago; tidying up, vacuuming and doing laundry also rank in the top five most tiring tasks, according to a Cornell University study.
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