Researchers say they have identified a common, but apparently mindless, psychological phenomenon that plays a previously unrecognized role in the way people form impressions of other people. Specifically, they've found that when someone attributes positive or negative traits to someone else, the listener will often attribute those same traits to the speaker. Embargoed: 3-18-98.
1998 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism awarded to Ben Brantley, The New York Times; Elinor Fuchs, author of The Death of Character (Indiana University Press); and Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists and columnist for American Theater magazine.
A new honors program in engineering and law, the only such program in the U.S., is being launched at Northwestern University. The program offers high school seniors conditional acceptance into law school and completion of their undergraduate studies a year early.
A Purdue University study of religion and body weight finds that religious people are more likely to be overweight than are nonreligious people. Fortunately for them, being religious may curtail some of the unhealthy effects of being overweight.
Changes in managed healthcare are creating pioneering roles for healthcare workers. This is happening against a backdrop of President Clinton's call for a national patient bill of rights and movements by several states to draft consumer protection bills for managed-care participants.
National Science Foundation (NSF) director Neal Lane will speak on Saturday, March 14, 1998, at a conference on "The Integral Role of the Two-year College in the Science and Mathematics Preparation of Prospective Teachers."
A synthetic author the likes of Proust, Joyce, or Kafka may not be in the future, but Brutus.1--an artificial agent capable of story generation--just wrote its first story about betrayal.
Religious beliefs are a major source of political cleavage, according to Vanderbilt political scientist Geoff Layman, who is calling for improved measurement of the effect of religous beliefs on voting.
President Clinton's proposal to spend $21.7 billion over five years to make child care affordable is a step in the right direction, but a Vanderbilt University historian says the public and policymakers need to do more to build a good system of child care. "Child care in America shouldn't just be expanded, it should also be improved," said Elizabeth Rose, assistant professor of history and author of a forthcoming book from Oxford University Press on the history of child care in America.
Peter Gizzi, one of the country's most celebrated young poets, is already receiving high praise for his soon-to-be released collection, Artificial Heart. The book is one of two by Gizzi that will be published this spring.
What has become of civility in our society? The John Hopkins Civility Project will host an international conference to explore that issue. "Reassessing Civility: Forms and Values at the End of the Century" will be held in Baltimore March 26-28. Coverage is welcome.
Vassar College announces the fifteenth annual Institute of Publishing and Writing: Children's Books in the Marketplace, to take place on the Vassar campus June 14 to 19.
Television writers who plan to cover USA Network's four-hour mini series on "Moby Dick," airing March 15-16, can find valuable background material on Herman Melville from the University of Delaware's Hershel Parker, author of what has been called the "definitive" Melville biography.
The age-based TV program rating system unveiled last fall as a guide to prime time television offers little help to parents who want to protect their children from television violence or alcohol-saturated programming, according to a recently completed study of the fall 1997 TV season by George Gerbner, Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications at Temple University.
Kids' Spring Sports Bring Mealtime Frenzy --In a recent national survey, almost half of American families said they'll have children participating in organized spring sports this spring. A large majority of these said it will affect the family's mealtime routine. The National Cancer Institute offers quick ways to eat healthfully -- especially five or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day -- during this busy time.
The tragic killings at the Connecticut State Lottery Office reflect a situation Dr. Dorothea Braginsky is investigating in a book she is working on , called "The Battered Workers Syndrome."
Preschoolers whose families get federal food benefits have much better diets and are protected from iron and zinc deficiencies, according to a new Cornell University study. And the benefits to the young children are much greater than if the families received cash allowances.
A small group of Temple University criminal justice majors is exploring issues of crime and justice with prison inmates in a college seminar held at a Philadelphia jail. "The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program: Exploring Issues of Crime and Justice Behind the Walls" may be the first experience of its kind in the country.
The University of Southern California Sea Grant program has designed a new Website to help school teachers catch the wave of interest in El NiÃ’o and is sponsoring an on-line educational seminar beginning next week to help promote better understanding of this powerful weather phenomenon.
Just in time for Women's History Month, "The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History" is appearing in bookstores. The book covers the experience of women in the U.S. from precolonial times to present and is edited by a team that includes Gloria Steinem and UC Santa Cruz politics professor Gwendolyn Mink.
The public's infatuation with historical movies such as "Titanic" and "Amistad" supports the idea behind a Purdue University professor's new book, that historical facts are not as important as the way they are spun.
Today's teen-agers may be designing the next generation of fishing poles. Or waterproof baseballs.
As nationwide efforts to reduce disability rolls increase the number of people re-entering the workplace with physical and mental challenges, today's businesses will need, more than ever, information on how to make the federally mandated accommodations.
Airport noise can seriously affect the health and psychological well-being of children, says a Cornell University study that looked at children before and after a new airport opened in Munich, Germany. The health effects of chronic noise -- higher blood pressure and boosted levels of stress hormones -- may have lifelong implications, says Gary Evans, an environmental psychologist.
The financial value of a higher education increased in the mid-1990s but the dollar value of a high school diploma or less dropped by 8 percent. The new analysis shows the earnings gap between families headed by college graduates and families headed by high school graduates widened significantly.
Judges can go to surprising lengths to ensure that jurors follow their instructions, according to Vanderbilt Law Professor Nancy King, who has written a new article called "Silencing Nullification Advocacy Inside the Juryroom and Outside the Courtroom."
Images of modern women, smoking, drinking and driving cars, working and making their own decisions are bombarding the "new" Indian television and changing forever the way women in that country see themselves. Indian born Sheena Malhotra, a Ph.D. communication student at the University of New Mexico, is studying the effects of television portrayals of modern women in a culture that is traditionally patriarchal.
Three out of four mothers feel that their partner's opinion greatly influences their decision to breast-feed, according to a study at Ohio State University.
People are more likely to support assisted suicide if there is direct physician involvement in helping people end their lives, new research suggests.
The National Science Board (NSB) urges a reexamination of the federal/university partnership, and offers several recommendations for improvement, in a policy paper released today titled "The Federal Role in Science and Engineering Graduate and Postdoctoral Education."
There have been more than 100 other studies that looked into this question by asking people about conflicts in their marriage, or their dating or cohabiting relationships. According to Straus, co-director of the University of New Hampshire Family Research Laboratory, "every one of these 'couple conflict' studies have found about equal rates of partner assault." So, the controversy sparked by Straus largely died out.
The academic environment's influence on schoolchildren's attitudes about cheating and the value of homework are examined in two studies to be published in the March issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Educational Psychology.
Gallaudet University (Washington D.C.), the world's only university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the student protest that shut down the campus in 1988 and led to significant changes in the way Americans with disabilities are treated. The event called "Deaf President Now" (DPN) will be celebrated with speeches, panel sessions, and events culminating in a student march to Capitol Hill on March 11.
Three days after Grandma's funeral is no time to start a family feud over her personal belongings, says a Purdue University expert on family finances. "Some people assume such decisions will take care of themselves," says Janet Bechman, Cooperative Extension Service specialist in consumer sciences and retailing. "But, in reality, the situation has resulted in many painful experiences that need not have occurred."
Check out the nearest post office on April 15 and you'll find a line of latecomers filing last-minute tax returns. If you ever want to examine why people procrastinate, contact Regina Conti, assistant professor of psychology at Colgate University. She researches procrastination.
It's the scarring left by an emotional abuse not the pain and bruises left by a violent that is more likely to trigger a battered wife's decision to leave her spouse, according to University of Washington psychologists who studied marriage marked by domestic violence.
The hit film Titanic serves as more than just a way to entertain moviegoers and make millions of dollars for the creators, according to a researcher who has written about the disaster. The film, like most examples of oral, written or other narratives of disaster, embraces a number of social purposes, said James Hikins, associate professor of journalism and communication at Ohio State University.
The Book of Love (Norton 1998), an anthology of writings about love, edited by Diane Ackerman, co-leader of the Cornell University English Department's Mind and Memory course this semester, and Cornell Media Services staff writer and novelist Jeanne Mackin, takes on that ancient and heart-stoppingly contemporary question, what is love?
The inventor of a piece of software embraced by Hollywood special-effects wizards in over 200 films is sharing his expertise in a new computer graphics course he is teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The news is not good regarding the performance of U.S. 12th graders in math and science in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
Researchers are examining the effects of tobacco, nicotine, the industries that support their production and the public health issues that develop from tobacco use. These programs deal with virtually every area of tobacco research, from the physiological effects of nicotine, to teen smoking, to legal and financial issues.
A recent study, published in the Western Journal of Communication, by a West Virginia University assistant communications professor suggest that sons and daughters pattern their aggressive verbal styles after their mothers.
UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III will be featured in Director Spike Lee's Civil Rights documentary film, 4 Little Girls, to be broadcast nationally by the Home Box Office cable network on Monday, February 23, 1998, at 9 p.m. (est).
A Virginia Tech professor is using computer technology to help preserve and teach surviving languages and dialects of Native American culture.
Exactly two years ago Stephen P. Ryder, now a junior at the University of Delaware, created a web page about his hobby--the life and crimes of Jack the Ripper. Little did he know how his life would change. Today he is a rising star in the field of Ripperology, is about to have a book published and has been asked to serve as a consultant on a Showtime Television special on British murders which will air in April.
Prevention works. It is financially and socially advantageous to foster policies that prevent people from becoming welfare recipients, according to a report to be released by the Poughkeepsie Institute.
Each year since 1984, the Fellowship Program in Academic Medicine for Minority Students, sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company since 1990, gives 35 outstanding students grants to conduct biomedical research. The program provides the fellows with mentors to help them complete medical school and encourage them to pursue careers in academia and medical research.
With a $6 million National Science Foundation grant and a group of researchers and educators from the University of Missouri-Columbia, middle- school students across the nation may soon be learning more mathematics and learning it better than before.
If hostilities break out in Iraq, Rice's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy will open its International Conference Facility (ICF) for a specified period of time to provide local, regional, national and international media outlets expert analysis of events.
A college education is designed to broaden minds and expand critical thinking, but it also should teach us how to better monitor what we say. This is especially true on the job, where a conversation about a popular television show can move very quickly from around the water cooler to a court of law.
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