In a series of studies over the past decade with school children in Maine and Illinois, a University of Maine psychologist has taken a close look at why some children use force to get their way while others shrink from such behavior.
Minimum wage hardly helps poor workers; instead, we should expand the Earned Income Tax Credits that targets workers with low family incomes, says a Cornell University professor who testified on minimum wage policy before a U.S. House of Representatives Committee.
Mary Manhein is a forensic anthropologist who is often touched by the people whose bones she handles.
The upcoming 100th anniversary of the annexation of Hawaii will likely be celebrated with a tidal wave of Hawaiian nationalism, says historian Tennant McWilliams, Ph.D., dean of the UAB School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Columbine High School student Grant Taylor survived the mayhem without injury, but he was haunted by nightmares. The role of dreams in emotional recovery will be discussed during the 16th annual International Dream Conference at UC Santa Cruz July 7-10.
While great strides have been made through the years in treating the human side of epilepsy, it's only recently that progress has been made in diagnosing and treating epilepsy in the animal world.
W. H. Freeman and Company has announced publication of Context is Everything: The Nature of Memory, by Susan Engel. The book explores how the context of a recollection--place, company, purpose, and situation--affects the essence and experience of the memory.
From survey results and in-depth interviews, three BYU professors studying media use by women with eating disorders concluded that pointing a finger at the media for causing eating disorders is overly simplistic.
Nearing the June 18 release date for the final report of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, a new, non-sponsored university study concludes that counties with casino gambling have an 8 percent higher crime rate on average than counties without casinos. The study found that higher crime rates donÃt occur immediately, but typically begin emerging in the third year after a casino opens in a community.
A new review of psychological research shows that exercise is an effective but underused treatment for mild to moderate depression. The review was published in the June issue of Professional Psychology.
Oregon Health Sciences University, and Portland Area Veterans Affairs psychologists, surveyed 625 licensed psychologists in the state about their role in determining the mental state of the terminally ill and published the results in the June issue of Professional Psychology.
A new reproductive and child health programme is underway in India--the world's second most populous country--setting in motion a paradigm shift in the provision of reproductive health services in the country--from a focus on achieving method-specific contraceptive targets to providing client-centered quality services.
Saliva is an important biological testing fluid of the future. It can be used to index the levels of a variety of biological markers known to be linked to developmental processes, social behavior, and high-risk health behaviors.
Researchers from around the world, members of the Association of Genocide Scholars, will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Madison June 13-15 to exchange insights into genocide and develop strategies to combat it at their third annual conference.
How much time U.S. children spend with their fathers, and what they do together.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and "Healing the Children," have teamed up to help 24 youngsters from around the world, most of whom have needed major operations, receive medical care that would otherwise have been unavailable to them.
Two University of Michigan students have proposed a disease prevention program that is designed to encourage teen girls on Depo-Provera to use condoms and to educate them about sexually transmitted diseases.
Can spiritual healing play a role in diagnosing, treating and preventing disease? Furthermore, is it possible to address these questions from a scientific standpoint?
Southwestern University recently launched a medical assistance effort to aid refugees in the Balkan nations of Macedonia and Albania by putting out a call for volunteers to alumni and friends of the Texas liberal arts college.
A neuroonclogist from Cedars-Sinai and his wife, a pediatrician, will travel to Ireland for 12 days this July to donate medical services to 90 seriously ill European youngsters at the Barretstown Gang Camp.
A two-part series on heart disease -- focusing particularly on the risks to Hispanic women -- was awarded a 1999 C. Everett Koop Media Award by the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate.
Project Vote Smart, the nationally recognized, nonpartisan voter education group, and Washington State University are launching a new partnership aimed to aid both American voters and the education of WSU students.
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Some of the talk about making people and organizations more accountable may amount to just that -- talk with little real payoff, a Carnegie Mellon University study shows.
By second grade, a child's readiness and success in school is linked to the quality of child care received in preschool, according to a four-state study of 800 preschool children. Results of the study, started in 1993, were released today in Washington, D.C.
On June 7, 1999, the White House will host the first ever White House Conference on Mental Health to address an issue that affects more than 50 million Americans and countless more family and friends who support loved ones living with mental illness.
People with high levels of self-doubt have markedly different thinking patterns than do individuals who harbor lower levels of self-doubt, a new Ohio State study shows.
Just being exposed to a story about a fictitious childhood experience can alter people's memories to the point that half of them believe the incident probably occurred even though they previously said it did not, University of Washington researchers will report at the American Psychological Society annual meeting.
Unconscious prejudice towards blacks and the elderly can be significantly decreased by exposing people to images of admired members of those groups, University of Washington psychologists will report at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting.
A University of Arkansas professor has conducted one of the world's first descriptive studies to examine the dangers of personal watercraft use. More than half of the people injured by these vehicles are children under the age of 14.
Americans mark Memorial Day with cut flowers and somber graveside visits. But a University of Arkansas historian says memorial days in ages past were not always so solemn. Ancient Greeks and Romans held public festivals and threw food into tombs.
This week, the country's leading theological experts will convene with top cancer researchers to lend their perspective to moral, ethical, religious and scientific questions about new genetic and medical technology.
Understanding what makes the terrorist tick and being prepared to respond in the event of a terrorist attack are among the topics that will be considered at a June conference "International Terrorism: Dealing With the Unseen" hosted by the University of Illinois.
A new book by Cornell University professor Vicki Caron describes France's response to its Jewish refugee crisis when Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933-42.
Two new books edited by two Cornell University sociologists explore how people develop their weight-related identities and cope in social situations; how our society and culture shape weight ideals; and how weight issues become social problems.
The University of New Hampshire's Cynthia M. Duncan, professor of sociology, researches rural poverty in America. Her latest book is the result of a five-year study of how the poverty cycle can be broken.
Social service agencies need to do a much better job of supporting foster parents if they want to correct the shortfall of families willing to take in children, a new Ohio State study suggests.
Precursors to Teenage Aggression and Violence, Consequences of Internet Usage, and Cancer Treatment and Prevention to be Major Themes
To tackle a subject--American Indians--long overlooked and poorly understood in civics classes--the rights and responsibilities inherent in American Indian sovereignty--Humboldt State University will host about 200 high school students Friday, May 21, for American Indian Civics Day.
A Purdue University expert on media and children believes kids are attracted to video games not so much by the violence, but because they present puzzles or problems to solve. He reviewed 27 studies on video games and found their overall effect on aggressiveness in children was not great.
A UMass professor says the Littleton shootings reveal the country has not learned the lessons of past gun-related tragedies. "All the headlines are about "kids killing kids" or the "problem of youth violence." But this isn't kids killing kids, it's boys killing other boys and girls. There's something about the way in which we're raising boys that leads to this."
Media advisory: Sandra Newman of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies has edited a new book on the interrelationship of assisted housing policy and welfare reform. She is available for interviews on the issue.
In describing husbands and wives of conservative, evangelical families, labels such as 'helpmate' and 'breadwinner' have been used. They're not necessarily correct, says a sociologist who researches gender issues.
Environmental law, once so straightforward in its aims and assumptions, has fragmented into five ideological camps that see issues of land use and endangered species in starkly different terms, a University of Illinois legal scholar argues.
A new study finds that women's attitudes toward abortion and toward media depictions of abortion are far more complex than previously thought. Social class, for example, both links and divides women's views on the controversial issue, and television representations of abortion are well received by some groups of women, strongly resented by others.
What turned into a lifetime of troubles for "B.D." began in early childhood.
Drug policy in the United States is the most repressive and ineffective in the industrialized world, says Craig Reinarman, a sociologist who is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Drug Policy Foundation.
Two UC Irvine researchers have identified significant differences in child and adult homicides, as well as age-related risk factors, that could lead to more effective prevention of child abuse and child homicide.
Parents who used to worry about whether their children would get into a good college now worry about whether the kids will get into a good day care.
In his new book, Michael K. Brown traces the roots of the racial stratification that riddles the U.S. welfare state. He shows how decisions made by both Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson shaped the scope of U.S. government aid programs and laid the groundwork for today's racially stratified system.
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