Social & Behavioral Science

Exercise motivation could be linked to certain smells, UC Riverside mouse study findsCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- On a near daily basis, the internet spews out numerous tips and tricks for exercise motivation.…

? It takes a mere 250 milliseconds for individuals to recognise their own identity compared to others A psychobiological study led by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) on personal identity and its modification over time in…

Childhood experiences and environment also have an impactCredit: (Adapted from Table 3 in Asahara et al. PLOS ONE, 2020.) Research based on 5425 citizens' responses to a questionnaire survey has illuminated that obesity…

Associate Professor Yevgeniya Shishova offered her take on the matter in XLinguae. The problem of language acquisition is one of the complicated psychological topics. Teacher education experts are always seeking new ways of improving the…

New analysis uses real-world recordings from homes, instead of laboratory settings Analysis of recordings from infants' homes reveals that certain types of vocal interactions between adults and infants are associated with a larger infant…

Like everything else in 2020, Thanksgiving will be different this year. But there will still be football on TV, and if you catch any of the games, your brain will be processing them in ways you're probably unaware of. In a study published…

Scientists developed an effective training method to exceed the limit of over-trained skillsCredit: Sony CSL In JST Strategic Basic Research Programs, Drs. Masato Hirano and Shinichi Furuya, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.,…

They post more about work on social media, feel more important COLUMBUS, Ohio - There's one group of essential workers who especially enjoy being called a "hero" during the COVID-19 pandemic: narcissists. In a new study, researchers…

What should we get for our kids this holiday? As children get older, giving them something they can experience (live through) instead of material things makes them happier, according to new research led by Lan Nguyen Chaplin, associate…

Discovery represents a major milestone for regenerative medicine that could help more people benefit from stem cell therapyCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical…

Yangon, Myanmar: In September 2020, 59 percent of 1000 households surveyed in urban Yangon and 66 percent of 1000 households surveyed in the rural Dry Zone earned less than $1.90/day (a common measure of extreme poverty), according to a…

Altered white matter decreases conscious access to information, contributes to delusionsCredit: Berkovitch et al., JNeurosci 2020 Altered white matter limits the brain's conscious access to information, potentially contributing to…

The risk of death is high for people who visit the emergency department (ED) for alcohol use, and the risk increases with frequency, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)…

7 grants from California Bureau of Cannabis Control will support research on health, policy and laborCredit: UCLA Health UCLA has received seven grants totaling $6.4 million from the California Bureau of Cannabis Control. The awards…

Excavations at Tiémassas, Senegal, indicate roughly 40,000 years of behavioural continuity, in contrast to other African regions over this periodCredit: K. Niang Although coastlines have widely been proposed as potential…

Rutgers researcher examines how states sue incarcerated people in civil court to recoup incarceration costs Pay-to-stay, the practice of charging people to pay for their own jail or prison confinement, is being enforced unfairly by using…

Peer-reviewed | observational study | people People who are dogmatic about their views seek less information and make less accurate judgements as a result, even on simple matters unrelated to politics, according to a study led by UCL and…

AHA, ACC issue updated guidance for the evaluation and management of people with HCM The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology today released an updated guideline for managing patients with hypertrophic…

The World Health Organization developed the new Labour Care Guide to support clinicians in providing good quality, women-centred care during labour and childbirth. In a study published in Birth, researchers evaluated the usability,…

The results of the study reveal that civil society associations are seeking to become more involved in scientific production Researchers at UPF have analysed the relationship between civil society organizations and the Spanish science and…