Life News (Social & Behavioral Sciences)

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Some people see helping in a disaster as romantic, allowing them to participate in an adventure of a lifetime, says a Ball State University educator.

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Healing racism will be the focus of workshop sessions led by renowned authors, speakers and facilitators with international reputations in race relations at conference October 15-17 at Connecticut College.

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Experts from across the country will gather in Snowmass, Colo., Nov. 29-Dec. 2 to examine the question of whether we are loving our public lands and waters to death at a conference organized by Colorado State University.

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World-renowned forensic anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow will make major international announcements when he presents two lectures at Austin College October 1 and 2. Additionally, the director of the Guatemala Forensic Anthropology Foundation will speak about controversial exhumations at the Police Military Academy in Guatemala City. The exhumations are anticipated to be the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

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Shortly after the state's Board of Education voted to downplay the teaching of evolution, noted evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould will speak at KU on Oct. 6.

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The first man in the job as president of the United States was a man of vanity, disappointment and longing, noted biographer Richard Norton Smith says.

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The Virginia Tech Center for Gerontology's monthly forums explores current issues affecting older adults' lives. The October and Novermber programs look at the "Court Opinions About Grandparent Visitation Rights" and "Diversity in Older Adults' Lives."

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Young people who participate in New York state 4-H clubs do better in school, are more motivated to help others achieve more, are more educationally motivated, have higher levels of self esteem, place more emphasis on having a value system and communicate at more of an adult level,than non-4-H'ers, according to a two-year Cornell University study.

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Jane Goodall, the world's leading authority on chimpanzees, will speak at Bucknell Oct. 15, about her nearly 40 years of research on chimpanzees and her wildlife conservation efforts. The title of her lecture is "Reason for Hope."

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Nobel Prize winner Dr. James Watson, who discovered the molecular structure of DNA along with Francis Crick in 1953, will speak Thursday, Oct. 14, at the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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Domestic Violence is an issue of pressing concern across the country. In recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University and the Kings County District Attorney's Office will present a free two-day conference.

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Single parenthood is not necessarily a risk factor for how well prepared six- and seven-year-olds are for school or how well they do in school, according to a large, multiethnic Cornell University study. Mothers' ability and educational levels were much more significant, and were about the same in single- and two-parent families.

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It is possible to predict which newlywed couples will divorce from the way partners interact in just the first three minutes of a discussion about an area of marital conflict, according to University of Washington researchers.

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A state-run lottery isn't likely to create gambling addicts, says a UAB addiction counselor, but it should bring more people into treatment for compulsive gambling disorders.

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UAB child psychologist Vivian Friedman, Ph.D., suggests that when it comes to children, parents avoid an emphasis on scary stories.

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Workers who used special computer software to remind them to assume good posture, take breaks from the computer and do occasional stretches were 13 percent more accurate on average in their work than coworkers who did not receive the computer advice, according to a new Cornell University study.

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Hofstra University is planning a major conference on the life and work of Eleanor Roosevelt, September 30 through October 2.In addition to family members, confidants and colleagues, biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook will be on hand for the proceedings.

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Carbon monoxide, a byproduct of improper combustion of some fuels, has been associated with the death of more than 200 people in this country each year.

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In an era when shocking tragedies lead the news, rudeness is the norm and politeness the exception, 121 University of Maryland students are the first participants in CIVICUS, a unique program of living and learning organized around the theme of creating a civil society.

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As this year's Nobel Conference(r) at Gustavus Adolphus College, Oct. 5-6, examines the emerging areas of genetics and predicts its effects into the next millennium live via the Internet.

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The nation's growing rail network once created a locale of unique opportunity for blacks in an otherwise unlikely city, says a University at Albany historian in her new book on Buffalo, N.Y.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton's popularity among the American public is nearly completely independent of her husband's approval rating, a new Ohio State study suggests.

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Americans on average estimate they will live about one year longer than statistics of life expectancy suggest they will, a new Ohio State study finds. Men and Blacks are most optimistic about their lifespans, while white women are least optimistic.

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The big spenders on campaign issue ads in the 1998 Wisconsin elections got very little payoff, says a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.

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Training adolescents to give up destructive behaviors like delinquency, substance abuse and violence seem to fail if several of the adolescents in the group have a tendency toward these behaviors, say researchers.

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Media and Communication in the New Global Economy will be the subject of a major conference Oct. 2-3 sponsored by the University of California, San Diego's Department of Communication.

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The Scopes Trial on evolution never really ended. It just wound on up the bumpers of cars. A new survey of the attitudes of those who stick Darwin fish symbols on their cars shows that some are making fun of religion in general, but many want to wreck a sacred symbol.

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A burial offering containing four skeletons was recently found under the Pyramid of the Moon, the oldest monument at Teotihuacan, the Western Hemisphere's oldest metropolis.

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Colgate University's Center for Ethics and World Societies has begun its second year of operation under the topic "Homeless in the World: Refugees, Immigrants and the State."

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The first thing survivors of Hurricane Floyd will need is "three squares and a place to sleep," says UAB psychiatrist Doug Sargent, M.D.

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Forget the Y2K bug. The real pest of the new millennium will be the new "double diamond" class structure, says a Purdue University sociologist, because it's a system that will make more Americans poor and powerless -- and will keep them that way.

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Two new books on labor struggles from faculty members in Cornell University were recently published: Jefferson Cowie's "Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor" and Kate Bronfenbrenner's "Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor," with co-author Tom Juravich.

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Nearly one out of five suburbanites lives in a community that is less advantaged than nearby central cities, according to a new University of Michigan study.

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Research findings from UNC Wilmington professors suggest that many retirees are "trading" work time for watching TV and doing sedentary activities. More emphasis must be placed on mental health aspects of pre-retirement planning.

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Older women are having twins and higher order multiple births at an increasingly high rate, according to a new report by the National Center for Health Statistics.

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Dreams can help you to improve you physical and mental health recent neurological studies show.

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A new study has found that more than half of Americans consider tailgating and running yellow lights to be aggressive and dangerous driving acts, yet many still admit to driving aggressively in the past month.

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The rapid influx of women into labor markets worldwide is one of the most significant developments of the 20th century, a University of Illinois professor writes in an upcoming journal issue devoted to the subject.

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1- Time of year; increased aggressiveness from stinging insects; 2- Medicine from the fingertips -- massage therapy can help premature babies gain weight.

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A century ago Sigmund Freud, in the spirit of scientific inquiry, and after years of research as a neurologist, published The Interpretation of Dreams. The book began his exploration of the mind and his development of psychoanalysis. The book's publication also marked the real beginnings of scientific research into the mind and to the development of truer understanding of mental health problems.

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The first 10 years of marriage has its ups and downs, according to a new study which suggests that marital distress could improve if couples know to expect those declines.

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Martha Holden, director of Cornell's Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training program, gave an intensive seven-day training in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia, last month to help them cope with skyrocketing rates of teen drug abuse and suicide.

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Two Arkansas archeologists have unearthed evidence about the native tribes of Arkansas that contradicts historical accounts dating back to the de Soto expedition in 1539. Their work shatters old assumptions about the tribes' highly stratified social structure.

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A new book by University of Illinois at Chicago professor Robert Bruno disputes claims that the era of the working class is dead, and says it may even be bouncing back.

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Children who survive cancer have a slightly lower rate of marriage when they reach adulthood than the general population, although the rate varies somewhat by sex and race, new research at Ohio State shows.

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The most effective way to reduce teenage smoking is for states to concentrate on comprehensive tobacco-control programs, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago report.

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UAB political scientist Nikolaos Zahariadis says the recent tragedy in Turkey could strengthen the Islamist leaders in that country.

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A new book -- Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society -- edited by Cornell sociologists Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster-McClain and Henry A. Walker explores America's diversity and persistent inequality.

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Cornell University educator gives tips for building strong families at a new web site maintained by Cooperative Extension System that offers resources and links on children, youth, parenting, families and communities.

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1- Music may not increase intelligence, but it can be an aid to concentration, 2- ancient Philistines may have eaten dogs.