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May 14, 2024
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May 13, 2024 A computer scientist has shown the power of language to predict harm -- this time to the nation's ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Sports, beyond entertainment, foster community and belonging, benefiting both individuals and society. Despite its recognized positive effects, limited evidence exists on the link between watching sports and well-being. To address this gap, a team ...
Jan. 16, 2024 Neuroscientists have investigated whether playing violent video games leads to a reduction in human empathy. To do this, they had adult test subjects play a violent video game repeatedly over the course of an experiment lasting several weeks. Before ...
Dec. 15, 2023 People who abandon New Year's resolutions or other commitments can maintain the respect of their peers by blaming external factors such as lack of money, new research suggests. Studies have found ...
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Mar. 11, 2024 Researchers got a valuable assist from artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help capture and analyze data from professional hockey games faster and more accurately than ever before, with big ...
Dec. 12, 2023 Why did professional skateboarding arise in southern California in the 1970s? Was it a coincidence, or was it a perfect storm of multiple factors? It's fairly well-known that a drought in southern ...
Nov. 14, 2023 It's one of the most famous taglines in film history, immortalizing sharks as ruthless predators. But beyond the horror generated by Spielberg's Jaws series, a persistent fear of sharks remains, with ...
Nov. 14, 2023 For the first time, teachers in a nationwide study have told researchers what strategies they think work best to deal with student violence against educators. Teachers rated suspending or expelling ...
Nov. 2, 2023 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and algorithms can and are being used to radicalize, polarize, and spread racism and political instability, says an academic. An expert argues that AI and algorithms are ...
Oct. 27, 2023 The privacy policies and practices of online games contain dark design patterns which could be deceptive, misleading, or coercive to users, according to a new ...
Oct. 1, 2023 In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a 'fairy tale,' rooted in ...
Sep. 7, 2023 Music can take on many forms in cultures across the globe, but researchers have found in a new study that some themes are universally recognizable by ...
Aug. 10, 2023 Legal restrictions placed on the amount of time young people in China can play video games may be less effective than originally thought, a new study has ...
Aug. 7, 2023 Social media can help women in Egypt identify more resources to help stop domestic violence, according to a study led by MIT ...
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May 1, 2024 There's a large and growing body of evidence pointing to potentially negative impacts of social media on mental health, from its addictive nature to disruptions in sleep patterns to effects on ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Legislators love bundling things together. It lets them accomplish more with less hassle and attempt to make legislation more appealing to a broader group. But a new study suggests that this can ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Dartmouth researchers tracked more than 200 undergraduates for all four years of college to capture the most in-depth data yet on how students' self-esteem and mental health fluctuates during ...
Feb. 23, 2024 Violence against teachers is likely to be higher in schools that focus on grades and test scores than in schools that emphasize student learning, a new study has ...
Feb. 20, 2024 The way companies announce new products or build up hype can often influence their success once those new products hit the market, according to new research. Whether it's an upcoming blockbuster ...
Feb. 20, 2024 Researchers conducted a study in which they showed four classrooms to students and asked about their perceptions of masculine traits versus feminine traits of the rooms. They also showed the same ...
Jan. 8, 2024 People process information more efficiently but tend to be less vigilant about misinformation on their mobile phones compared to personal computers (PCs). This is especially true for users who have ...
Dec. 13, 2023 And after nearly two years of fighting, war is destroying Ukraine’s cultural heritage on a scale not seen since World War II, according to new ...
Dec. 11, 2023 Partners and children who are subject to domestic abuse are more likely to experience certain physical and mental health effects than previously thought, according to a new ...
Nov. 28, 2023 A new study zooming in on how smartphones influence our photography habits found Australians aged 20 to 40 years old take more selfies than teenagers and older ...
Nov. 20, 2023 As possibilities have changed and technology has advanced, memories and nostalgia are now a significant part of our use of social ...
Oct. 24, 2023 Recent research has found that backers of crowdfunding projects participate, in part, because they enjoy a sense of indirect success and the feeling that they are contributing to something bigger ...
Aug. 31, 2023 A recent study of 425 Quebecers between the ages of 18 and 25 has found that young adults who have more frequent psychotic experiences also tend to spend more time using digital media. Interestingly, ...
Aug. 1, 2023 The statistical model identifies links between battles in Africa and can be applied to other armed conflicts, according to a new ...
July 24, 2023 A new study has added weight to the evidence that watching too much television as a child can lead to poor health in adulthood. The research found that children who watched more television were more ...
July 13, 2023 A new study has found that aggression is not always the product of poor self-control but, instead, often can be the product of successful self-control in order to inflict greater ...
July 7, 2023 Researchers investigated how seeing frightening news about climate change day after day may shape the way people feel about the phenomenon and how willing they are to take action to address ...
Feb. 23, 2023 Teens and young adults who reduced their social media use by 50% for just a few weeks saw significant improvement in how they felt about both their weight and their overall appearance compared with ...
Feb. 13, 2023 Study finds that just 8% of all depictions of AI professionals from a century of film are women -- and half of these are shown as subordinate to men. Cinema promotes AI as the product of lone male ...
Feb. 7, 2023 Despite old fears that bad effects follow excessive video game playing or questionable game choices, researchers found those factors mattered little, if any, in children's brain health. The bad ...
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- Generating 'buzz' About New Products Can Influence Their Success
- Study Finds Students, Designers Have Different Perceptions of Masculine, Feminine Traits of Classrooms
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- Nazi Propaganda from 1927-1945 Reveals Role of Dehumanization of Jews in the Holocaust
- Trust in Experts, Media Literacy Connected to COVID-19 Vaccine Intention
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
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- Disconnection, Not Teens' Screen Time, Is the Problem, Research Suggests
- Gun Violence Across America: Unexpected Trends Revealed by Statistical Analysis
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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- Similarities in Movie Review Content by Critics and General Users Impact Movie Sales, Study Shows
- Spanking Related to Other Forms of Discipline, Intimate Partner Violence
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- Hiding Chocolate Stashes or Online Purchases from a Partner? 'Guilty' Purchases May Have Benefits, Study Finds
- Which Teens Are More Likely to Vape? Research Shows Surprising Patterns Across Race and Sexuality Groups
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- Psychological Traits of Violent Extremism Investigated Using New Research Tool
- Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories May Not Be Increasing
- Motion Capture Reveals Why VAR in Football Struggles With Offside Decisions
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- Capturing an Elusive Shadow: State-by-State Gun Ownership
- Music Is Key to Converting Consumers' Good Intentions to Actual Purchases in Ethical and Sustainable Markets