Latest science news in Psychology & Sociology
Key To A Healthy Lifestyle Is In The Mind
The main factors influencing the amount of physical exercise people carry out are their self-perceived ability and the extent of their desire to exercise. A study of 5167 Canadians has...
Observatory: Monkeys Pick Right Stone for a Tough Nut
Researchers have found that bearded capuchin monkeys in the wild will select the most effective stone for use in cracking nuts.
Screen time links to unhealthy kids
A study has found that children spending more than two hours a day in front of a computer or TV are much more likely to be unfit, though boys are...
"Sexting" Shockingly Common Among Teens
While it may be shocking, the practice of "sexting" - sending nude pictures via text message - is not unusual, especially for high schoolers around the country.
Drug Abusing Offenders Not Getting Treatment They Need in Criminal Justice System
The vast majority of prisoners who could benefit from drug abuse treatment do not receive it, despite two decades of research that demonstrate its effectiveness, according to researchers at the...
Speech Disorders Can Be Assessed From A Distance, Research Finds
There should be no barriers to providing high-quality speech pathology services, according to one Australian researcher. Her work has found that speech and language disorders can be validly and reliably...
DVD teaches autistic kids what a smile means
(AP) -- It wasn't until Jude met Jenny that the 3-year-old autistic boy understood what happy people look like. Jenny, a green tram with a human face, had a...
Feature: Bird behaviour inspires fire-spotting plan
Unmanned fire-spotting planes could use algorithms based on the way birds share information in flocks - making the planes more independent when communication is difficult.
Game of two halves leads to brain asymmetry
A tug-of-war between the two sides of the brain causes it to become asymmetrical, according to research published today in the journal Neuron. Asymmetry in the brain is thought to...
Parkour Training: How to Do a Wall-Flip
How to perform a two-step wall-flip and live to enjoy the high-five that will follow. Good for impressing friends and escaping pursuers…
Is conflict betwen God and science hardwired?
New study suggests our minds are conflicted, making it so we have trouble reconciling science and God because we unconsciously see these concepts as fundamentally opposed, at least when both...
UNICEF: Teen births 5 times deadlier than in 20s
(AP) -- Girls who give birth before the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s, the U.N. said Thursday,...
Does universal health care affect attitude toward dementia?
A new study has found that in spite of their universal health care system which facilitates access to free dementia care, older adults in the United Kingdom are less willing...
Alcohol Exposure In The Womb Affects 'Teenage' Booze Behavior
Rats whose mothers were fed alcohol during pregnancy are more attracted to the smell of liquor during puberty. Researchers writing in Behavioral and Brain Functions have shown that rats exposed...
Early Childhood Diet May Influence Future Health
Surprising new research published in the Journal of Physiology, indicates a direct connection between an adult's propensity to put on weight and our early childhood diet.
Adam Rutherford: To stop embryonic and stem cell research would be immoral; it has enormous potential for alleviating human suffering
The question: Should we allow research using human-animal hybrid embryos?Zealots on both sides often overemphasise the dichoto
Fractured Consciousness
The modern scientific consensus is that the 'mind' is just a word we use to describe our experience of our own brains in action. This post contains a discussion of...
Violence and values in the Middle East: Lebanon survey
As fighting continues in Gaza, a University of Michigan survey of neighboring Lebanon illuminates some of the values underlying the use of violence in the Middle East. read more
Website Design Affects How Children Process Information
A new study in the journal Psychology & Marketing investigates the influence of website design on children’s information processing. Results show that the type of interface used can significantly affect...
Presumed Consent For Organ Donation Urged By Experts
Introducing presumed consent or opt-out system may increase organ donation rates, suggests a new systematic review.
Facebook, MySpace still mostly for the young
(AP) -- More people are embracing social networks like MySpace and Facebook, but use of these friend-gathering sites remains a much bigger phenomenon among the young, according to a...
Enderle, analyst extraordinaire, is everywhere in Silicon Valley
Rob Enderle answers the door at his house in the East San Jose foothills and he's on the phone. Of course he is. It's what he does. Talk. Talk. Talk.
Future of school textbooks written in cyberspace
Northwest Missouri State University students started spring semester classes Monday, but many aren't lugging thick textbooks around campus.
Doctors call for halt to Gaza assault
LONDON (AP) -- International doctors called for an end to the violence in Gaza, saying hospitals were scenes of "nightmarish havoc" in articles published Wednesday in...
Victorian novels helped us evolve into better people, say psychologists
The despicable acts of Count Dracula, the unending selflessness of Dorothea in Middlemarch and Mr Darcy's personal transformation in Pride and Prejudice helped t
Brain Mechanisms Of Social Conformity
New research reveals the brain activity that underlies our tendency to "follow the crowd." The study provides intriguing insight into how human behavior can be guided by the perceived behavior...
Bush's legacy: An unlikely champion
Was setting up PEPFAR #20; a massive HIV treatment programme #20; the best thing that President Bush ever did? Erika Check Hayden investigates.
Most Support Alzheimer's Research Based On Family Consent
By the time they have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, many patients' decision-making ability is so impaired that they cannot give informed consent to participate in research studies. A new...