Research has shown the significance of social relationships in influencing adult human behavior and health; however, little is known about how children's perception of their social networks correlates with stress and how ...
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While there is no Hubble telescope gathering data about the universe of human development, projects to make large amounts of information—big data—more accessible to developmental researchers could bring behavioral science's ...
Mar 23, 2016
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Depression is more than just sadness. Sufferers may lose interest in favorite activities or lose motivation to complete routine tasks. They may also lose some brain cells, say University of Mississippi Medical Center neuroscientists.
Mar 7, 2016
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Could human suicide have evolutionary roots in self-sacrificial behaviors like those seen in species such as honeybees and ants?
Jan 27, 2016
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"Will you exercise this year?" That simple question can be a game-changing technique for people who want to influence their own or others' behavior, according to a recent study spanning 40 years of research.
Dec 28, 2015
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Using 20 years of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from tens of thousands of brain imaging experiments, computational neuroscientists Hava Siegelmann and a postdoctoral colleague at the University of Massachusetts ...
Dec 16, 2015
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The older the clinician, the more likely they are to think playing video games leads to violent behavior, according to new research published in Computers in Human Behavior.
Aug 19, 2015
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Graduate student Reshmaan Hussam has always seen economics as more than a collection of numbers: For her, it also entails history, health, and human behavior. Now, as a fifth-year PhD student in economics at MIT, she applies ...
Jul 23, 2015
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A discovery into the workings of the human nervous system is expected to have a "transformative impact" on how scientists understand the role of perceptual-motor delays in human and animal behavior, as well as understandings ...
Jun 8, 2015
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Receiving the human papillomavirus vaccine does not increase rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in adolescent females. The vaccine, which can prevent cervical cancer in women, has had a low uptake, partly because ...
Feb 9, 2015
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