Browse News Stories
41 to 50 of 2,141 stories
view headlines only
-
Women Reject Sexually Promiscuous Peers When Making Female Friends
June 3, 2013 College-aged women judge promiscuous female peers more negatively than more chaste women and view them as unsuitable for friendship, according to ... > full story -
Insomnia Research
Insomnia
Sleep Disorders
Sleep Disorder Research
Gender Difference
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Sleep Deprived Men Over Perceive Women's Sexual Interest and Intent
May 31, 2013 A new study suggests that one night of sleep deprivation leads to an increase in men's perceptions of both women's interest in and intent to have ... > full story -
Why Female Loggerhead Sea Turtles Always Return to Their Place of Birth
May 30, 2013 For a better protection of marine turtles, scientists are trying to understand why they return to their birthplace in order to reproduce after rather long distance migrations. Using molecular tools ... > full story -
Big Feet Preference in Rural Indonesia Defies One-Size-Fits-All Theory of Attractiveness
May 30, 2013 People in most cultures view women with small feet as attractive and a sign of a potential mate's youth and fertility. But a new research study shows that the Karo Batak living in rural villages in ... > full story -
Women Donate Less to Charity Than Men in Some Contexts
May 28, 2013 Given the chance, women are more likely than men to dodge an opportunity to donate to charity, a group of economists has ... > full story -
Men, Women Lie About Sex to Match Gender Expectations
May 28, 2013 People will lie about their sexual behavior to match cultural expectations about how men or women should act – even though they wouldn’t distort other gender-related behaviors, new ... > full story -
Students Perform Well Regardless of Reading Print or Digital Books
May 24, 2013 Students did equally well on a test whether reading from a digital book or a printed one, new research ... > full story -
Gender Difference
Educational Psychology
Child Development
Child Psychology
Educational Policy
ADD and ADHD
'Boys Will Be Boys' in U.S., but Not in Asia
May 22, 2013 A new study shows there is a gender gap when it comes to behavior and self-control in American young children -- one that does not appear to exist in children in ... > full story -
Doctors Prescribe More Analgesics to Women Than to Men Just for Being Female, Spanish Study Shows
May 21, 2013 Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A new study affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between ... > full story -
Gym Class Reduces Probability of Obesity, Study Finds for First Time
May 20, 2013 Little is known about the effect of physical education on child weight, but a new study finds that increasing the amount of time that elementary schoolchildren spent in gym class reduces the ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 140,690

