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Good Days, Bad Days: When Should You Make Sacrifices in a Relationship?
April 30, 2013 A new study suggests that while making sacrifices in a romantic relationship is generally a positive thing, doing so on days when you are feeling especially stressed may not be ... > full story -
A Text Message a Day Keeps the Asthma Attack Away
April 30, 2013 Simply sending children with asthma a text message each day asking about their symptoms and providing knowledge about their condition can lead to improved health ... > full story -
Researchers Successfully Treat Autism in Infants: Playing Games That Infants Prefer Can Lessen Severity of Symptoms
April 30, 2013 Most infants respond to a game of peek-a-boo with smiles at the very least, and, for those who find the activity particularly entertaining, gales of laughter. For infants with autism spectrum ... > full story -
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Twitter for Crisis Communication: Study Shows Benefits for the Police
April 30, 2013 A study shows how the police can use social media in crisis in order to promptly communicate with affected residents. Scientists analyzed 6672 Twitter messages exchanged between the population and ... > full story -
Do You Fear You Are Missing Out?
April 29, 2013 Does checking Twitter and Facebook to see what your friends are up to make you feel like you are missing out on all the fun? Researchers have come up with a way of measuring the modern day concept of ... > full story -
Visitors and Residents: Students' Attitudes to Academic Use of Social Media
April 29, 2013 Research has shown that university students behave very differently when using social media as part of their academic ... > full story -
Sexually Explicit Material Affects Behavior in Young People Less Than Thought
April 25, 2013 Viewing sexually explicit material through media such as the Internet, videos, and magazines may be directly linked with the sexual behavior of adolescents and young adults, but only to a very small ... > full story -
Pedophiles Identified Accurately With Implicit Association Tasks
April 25, 2013 A combination of two tasks for implied sexual associations has distinguished -- with more than 90 per cent certainty -- a group of pedophilic men from a group of men with a sexual preference for ... > full story -
Reasons for Attending College Affect Students' Academic Success
April 25, 2013 Students not performing well academically? Look no further—the answer may be in their motivation for attending college in the first place. Researchers found that student motivation for ... > full story -
Counting on Black Crows to Help Us Adapt to Stressful Situations
April 23, 2013 It’s hard not to catch sight of at least one black crow in the pursuit of our daily lives. For most of us, however, that is where the interaction ends. For one professor that single sighting is ... > full story
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