New Research Shows That School Uniforms Don’t Improve Child Behavior
Students feel less sense of belonging when uniforms are required. Despite the belief of many parents and teachers, school uniforms don’t seem to have any…
Students feel less sense of belonging when uniforms are required. Despite the belief of many parents and teachers, school uniforms don’t seem to have any…
Emotional, non-rational, even explosive remarks in public discourse have escalated in recent years. Politicians endure insults during legislative discussions; scientists receive emails and tweets containing…
For the first time, researchers observed chimpanzees in Gabon, West Africa applying insects to their wounds and the wounds of others. In a study published…
Behavioral interventions targeting social anxiety must be adapted to treat loneliness. Despite similar symptoms, loneliness and social anxiety are driven by different brain states, according…
Researchers from Osnabrück University now examine a possible pharmaceutical function. A research team from Osnabrück University and the Ozouga Chimpanzee Project has, for the first…
Men twice as likely to fall victim, with young people, Black, and Native American women, and LGBTQ individuals also at high risk. During the COVID-19…
To Keep or Not To Keep Those New Year’s Resolutions? New research suggests that people may not always want help with sticking to their New…
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent….
Negative labels influence consumer perception of food, study finds. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a chocolate chip cookie labeled…
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study. MIT scientists found that infants…
Research indicates that mood improvement is more effective when individuals use techniques they consider their strengths. This approach could alter therapeutic methods by emphasizing the…
Global support for populism has decreased during the pandemic as people favored expert-led governance in response to ineffective populist leadership, leading to a shift in…
A new study highlights a video game designed to improve reading skills through action-based gameplay focusing on executive functions. Children playing this game showed long-term…
A team from the UNIGE demonstrates that certain soft incentive techniques, known as “nudges,” are effective in getting people to change their behavior. Developed by…
Led by the University of Plymouth, UK, and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, the study analyzed the behavior of 376 children aged five to eight from…
They say appearances can be deceiving. In the case of gift giving, they might be right. Consumers in the U.S. spend billions of dollars a…
A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread. The spread of misinformation on…
Cooperation and aggression. Meerkats are showing us that one may not be possible without the other. In a study appearing this week in the journal…