Cohabitation tends to attract people with different economic circumstances than those who opt directly for marriage, says Marin Clarkberg, assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University. Men and women with less stable job histories tend to cohabitate as do higher-earning women but lower-earning men.
If you're planning to buy your Valentine the standard $5 box of no-name chocolates this year, you may get more than you bargained for. In a consumer behavior study on chocolate, University of Utah marketing professors found that the ostensibly innocuous candy is emotionally charged and capable of eliciting feelings of guilt and uncontrolled desire, causing some women to hoard, hide or even steal chocolate from others and some men to actively police the consumption of their feminine companions.
Cultural observers sometimes contend that today's twenty- and thirty-somethings lack the common experience that binds previous generations. But a Swarthmore College professor and his co-author brother take exception in a new book. The members of Generation X do have something in common, Timothy and Kevin Burke claim --the Saturday morning cartoons they devoured with their Cap'n Crunch back in their childhood.
The National Science Foundation will host a ceremony at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Va., to honor the 20 NSF recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
In today's world of fast-paced communication,, who has time for old-fashioned love letters? Just about everybody, says a professor of communication at North Carolina State University and one of the nation's top experts on the use and abuse of interactive media. The ease and speed of e-mail is helping revive the art of intimate correspondence, he says.
Dr. Judy Kuriansky, psychologist and host of the popular nationally-syndicated radio show "LovePhones," has unveiled the BLUES IN THE BEDROOM campaign, a program to prompt frank discussion among patients and doctors about sexual problems and antidepressant therapies.
University of San Francisco professor can discuss change of leadership in Jordan after King Hussein's passing.
A well-known philanthropist, a Nobel laureate and leading culture critics will be among the many scholars and other experts who will participate in a major symposium on the future of the liberal arts college to be hosted by Trinity College on Feb 22-23.
The new chair of Temple University's philosophy department, is trying to shed philosophy's crusty old image of elitism.
A living document of the black experience in America, the second edition of The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture traces critical periods in African American life with charts, maps, text and photographs in color and black-and-white.
A Johns Hopkins University anthropologist is studying the nature of romantic love in various cultures and is teaching a course called "The Anthropology of Love." She is available as a source for Valentine's Day stories.
A new CD-ROM produced by Ball State University is the long-awaited response to help alleviate the growing problem of cheating among college students.
The best solution to the Y2K problem is snarled in a web of human organizational behaviors, says Allan Hanson, cultural anthropologist at the University of Kansas. Hanson argues that the Y2K solution requires a maximum flow of information. Cooperation, not competition, is needed to find solutions for this complicated problem.
The Vassar College/New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Summer Theater Program for theater is accepting applications for the 1999 season.
Blind students throughout the country now have access to inexpensive instructional tactile materials thanks to a new Purdue University Web site. TAEVIS Online is an electronic library containing more than 2,500 tactile diagrams from college-level course material such as graphs, chemical structures and biological drawings
With Valentine's Day approaching, love is in the air. It's also in the brain, more deeply ingrained than language itself. Romantic love - i.e., the act of falling love, not to be confused with that other basic instinct, lust - is a primal emotion as basic as fear, according to a Vanderbilt University researcher.
A St. John's University English professor has edited an anthology of poetry by physicians entitled Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians, newly released by the University of Iowa Press.
St. John's University's Psychology Department is offering a doctoral program in School Psychology.
Mosquitoes will be the guests of honor Feb. 20 at the University of Illinois, and those who come to see them are invited to get pumped for blood. It's the 16th annual Insect Fear Film Festival, which this year will feature a blood drive.
When Diamond Dallas Paige and Sting apply a scorpion death lock to their opponents, thousands of fans cheer them on. Mississippi State research seeks to understand what attracts the fans to a sport skyrocketing in popularity.
Seeing witnesses during the impeachment trail will not help senators determine the truth, says a University of Virginia authority on lying. In more than 100 studies of people with no special training in detecting deception, such as the senators, accuracy in determining lying averages only 54 percent.
Looking for a way to boost your child's interest in reading? Experts say something as old as the human voice and as new as cyberspace may help.
Logic would suggest that students who struggle most in the classroom would ask most for help. Instead, they are often the most reluctant, says a professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois.
A fledgling university partnership that seeks to build racial understanding has produced some heated classroom exchanges but also some eye-opening discussion between students from different backgrounds. The unique partnership, called "Building Community Through Technology," links students from Central Michigan University, a predominantly white university, and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a historically black institution.
The University of California, San Diego has received an $863,000 grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to fund a groundbreaking new civic effort that will initiate a new dialogue between UCSD faculty and the San Diego community, with the aim of better integrating the university's research and teaching expertise with community needs and interests.
Kids in elementary school are being put at risk by computer workstations that have been designed with little or no regard for children's musculoskeletal health, according to a Cornell University study.
People engaging in frequent sexual activity are also reducing their risks of getting the common cold, according to a study, "The Effect of Sexual Behavior on Immune System Function," by researchers at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
In a study of reactions to a scary movie, Purdue University communication researchers found that some people will tell you that they were not frightened, but physical measures indicate otherwise.
News that Cesar Chavez will be inducted into the U.S. Labor Department's Hall of Fame on Jan. 28 came as no surprise to one North Carolina State University scholar, who for decades has studied and written about Chavez's lifework.
The Marketing Club, a student group at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and an associate professor of marketing at the school will meet the week after the SuperBowl to analyze the ads that aired the previous Sunday and try to decide if advertisers got their money's worth and made good marketing decisions.
A combination of an insecure man with a dismissive woman may make domestic violence more likely in a relationship, a new Ohio State University study suggests.
When 11-month-olds at an Ohio State University laboratory school want to eat, they don't have to cry: they can use their hands to sign for a bottle. As part of a pilot program, infants as young as 9 months old and their teachers have learned to use sign language.
A historian of technology who has studied the automobile, Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex has now turned his attention to what he calls the "Eighth Wonder of the Modern World:" Las Vegas. And he's scheduled a field trip for his students.
An associate professor of social medicine and history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named one of 10 international recipients of a $1 million James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship.
The National Science Foundation honored 338 outstanding new science and engineering faculty members nationwide in fiscal year 1998 with Faculty Early Career Development awards totaling approximately $80 million.
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Cornell University psychologist Thomas Gilovich and financial journalist Gary Belsky is about "behavioral economics," including the cognitive and motivational shortcomings that make even smart people act unwisely with their money.
A powerful exhibition of photography from the Civil Rights movement opens Friday, January 15, 1999, in the Prints and Drawings Galleries at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College and will run through Sunday, March 7, 1999.
Vassar loyalty is bringing a number of previously unexhibited masterpieces to public attention at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (FLLAC). Seven decades worth of collectors -- Vassar alumni and several friends of the college -- have brought some of their finest works together for an exhibition which will open in April. The exhibition will include works of painting, drawing, sculpture, decorative arts, printmaking, and photography from 65 private collections.
At Holman Correctional Facility, just north of the Florida panhandle in Atmore, Ala., Jeffrey Day Rieber waits to die - but some University of Wisconsin-Madison law students and their law professor are laboring to prevent his death.
What do Elvis Presley and Pablo Picasso have in common? Both made the cut in The Centre 100, an end-of-the-century arts listing compiled by students and faculty at Centre College. The college is celebrating the list with an exhibit and a website (www.centre.edu).
A new book highlights five controversial "Crimes of the Century," exposing much more than the underlying tensions of our criminal justice system. The cases -- including Leopold and Loeb (1924), Scottsboro (from 1931), Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1932), Alger Hiss (1949) and O.J. Simpson (1994) -- also offer provocative insights into the nation's passions, politics and prejudices.
The number of women and underrepresented minority group members earning baccalaureate to doctoral degrees in Science and Engineering (S&E) fields rose as much as 68 percent from 1985 and 1995, according to a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Science Resources Studies (SRS) Data Brief.
Tunnel-vision teaching and traditional testing methods are multiplying the problem of students who "can't do math." One of this country's leading mathematics educators has a formula for solving the problem: broaden the definition of what constitutes good mathematical skills and create new ways to measure them.
American working, married couples would prefer to work less but they work more hours than ever. That's because today's workplace doesn't offer enough part-time jobs, reported a Cornell University sociologist. Many women choose to stay home rather than enter the 'all or nothing' workplace which has not adapted to the changing patterns of employee preferences, she said.
Couples who wish they could work less, who have demanding jobs or both work more than 45 hours a week report the lowest quality of life among working couples, according to a Cornell University sociologist. Couples in which both partners work regular full-time hours -- especially when the wives are in nonprofessional jobs -- report the highest quality of life, even higher than when one partner works part-time.
Scholars may never know the details of William Shakespeare's love life, but they do know that the authoritative text for the bard's plays is the 1623 "First Folio," which is now available to scholars and students through Rice's Fondren Library.
A group of scholars from around the world are gathering next month at Colorado College to address globalization and intercultural dynamics in the next century in a three-day series of lectures, debates, and open discussions.
A New TV advertising campaign uses the national reputation of Temple University's men's basketball team to tout its academic 'stars." The spots feature Temple Honors students racing onto the floor of The Apollo of Temple while courtside announcers give their 'stats'--GPA's and academic achievements.
On Thursday, Jan. 21, science students at two Indiana schools will communicate live via internet with a Purdue University researcher, who is on a scientific expedition to a dinosaur site in southwest China.
As the United States enters a new millennium, a Purdue University sociologist says we must move beyond simple rhetoric to really understand race relations. In his recently released book, "Diversity and Unity," a professor of sociology, takes a look at different approaches to handling racial and ethnic diversity.
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