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Who takes risks?
It's a common belief that women take fewer risks than men, and that adolescents always plunge in headlong without considering the consequences. But the reality of who takes risks when...
Short-term use of amphetamines can improve ADHD symptoms in adults, review finds
Giving amphetamines to adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can help them control their symptoms, but the side effects mean that some people do not manage to take them...
College-educated undocumented young adults face same narrow range of jobs as their parents
Parents who move to the United States without legal status generally seek better opportunities for their young children. But a new survey of life trajectories of undocumented young adults raised...
Brain connectivity disrupted in patients with post-concussive syndrome
A new study has found that patients with mild traumatic brain injury exhibit abnormal functional connectivity in the thalamus, a centrally located relay station for transmitting information throughout the brain.
Worrying can impact interpersonal relationships, study finds
Most people worry from time to time. A new research study shows that worrying can be so intrusive and obsessive that it interferes in a person's life and endangers the...
Something to chew on: How our tongues work
Are you reading this over a snack or your lunch? Go ahead, take a bite and notice how you use your tongue.
Video: Study: Internet as addictive as alcohol, tobacco
A new study shows that the Internet can be as addictive as alcohol and cigarettes as deprivation may lead to feelings of unhappiness. KENS-TV's Wendy Rigby reports.
Donated CFL brains show concussion-related disease
Two of the four deceased CFL players whose brains were donated to the Canadian Sports Concussion Project suffered from a neurological disease linked to concussions, preliminary results show.
Tech Withdrawal Similar to Giving Up Drinking, Smoking
Over half of people said they felt "upset" when asked to give up technology for a day.
U.K.'s DNA bank 'U-turn' blasted by privacy groups
Britain's government is being accused of breaking a promise to stop keeping the DNA records of people arrested for crimes but later found innocent.
Spare the rod and develop the child
Children in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving “executive functioning” – psychological processes such as planning, abstract thinking,...
Caring voices
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) today (July 26) released a powerful video in support of the It Gets Better Project. The four-minute video features faculty, staff, and students sharing deeply personal...
Grandparents connected to success of human race
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you looked around at your family some 40,000 years ago, you would not have seen grandparents as the likelihood of a person passing their 30th birthday was...
Stargate, Belief Systems, And The Misguided Assumption That The Truth Will Set Them Free
Occasionally, my interests in the psychology of belief and my love of sci-fi intersect. Imagine if you will my howling with disgust when one of my favorite shows perpetuates the...
War of words: A look at media and for-profit colleges
Views on the role of for-profit colleges have been varied, opposing and very public. This debate had played out primarily in the media, and those sentiments were researched and analyzed...
When it pays to spend on health care
When someone is rushed to an emergency room with heart problems, does it matter how much money the hospital spends on that patient?
Lockheed Martin's multi-mission signal processor completes tracking test
The Lockheed Martin Aegis SPY-1 radar successfully identified, tracked and conducted simulated engagements against live aircraft in a stressing electronic attack environment during a test of the Multi-Mission Signal Processor...
Brain 'hears' voices when reading direct speech
(Medical Xpress) -- When reading direct quotations, the brain hears the voice of the speaker, say scientists.
The Medical Minute: How to counter media messages on sex
On television, in music videos, on the Internet and in movies, explicit sexual content is everywhere -- and children are often prime targets.
Churchgoing teenagers biggest backers of Muslim identity in Britain
New research released today from the University of Warwicks Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit demonstrates that churchgoing young Christians give much more support to their Muslim peers, in comparison...
What social media can teach us about ourselves
Today's online experience is really the experience of being part of a gigantic crowd of people, said Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science at Cornell, in a...
Exposure to U.S. flag moves voters to the right
(PhysOrg.com) -- Expect even more flags at Republican campaign events. And if the Democrats were wise, they might well strip the stage of flags altogether, suggests a new Cornell study,...
Investors driven by emotion, not facts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Individuals investing in stocks let their emotions guide them more than facts, often to their financial detriment, a new UC Davis study finds.
Research: 10 percent can 'tip' opinions
TROY, N.Y., July 25 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say that when just 10 percent of a population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the...
Trend in young adults' dating habits, committed relationships may not lead to marriage
Changes in relationship formation and dissolution in the past 50 years have revealed new patterns in romantic relations among young adults. The US Census indicates that young people are choosing...
Lawsuit Says Drugs Were Wasted to Buoy Profit
DaVita is accused of using large vials of dialysis medicine knowing that Medicare would pay for the unused portion.
Well: How Men Experience Grief
Research increasingly suggests that men and women experience grief in different ways, and the realization has bolstered a nascent movement of bereavement groups geared to men throughout the country.
For the love of trees: Book tells all about forest hydrology, biogeochemistry
Delphis (Del) Levia, associate professor of geography at the University of Delaware, has always loved trees. Growing up on his parents' 93-acre farm in central Massachusetts, he and his brothers...