Mass Media

What happens when a strong advocate for one side of a controversial issue in science publicly announces that he or she now believes the opposite? Does the message affect the views of those who witness it -- and if so, how? Although past…

National survey also looks at opinions on key issues, possible 2020 presidential candidates, trust in government LOWELL, Mass. - President Donald Trump, his Twitter habit and Twitter in general are not popular with millennials, according…

Humans have more universal ways of expressing happiness than any other emotion, study finds COLUMBUS, Ohio - Human beings can configure their faces in thousands and thousands of ways to convey emotion, but only 35 expressions actually get…

Demi Lovato's drug overdose and Anthony Bourdain's suicide resulted in unequal news coverage of national help hotlines, finds a new study published Jan. 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine. While Americans tweeted in high volumes and searched…

Funding by private foundations is inadvertently changing the international journalism it supports, according to a new study led by the University of East Anglia (UEA). Researchers found that journalists change the ways they understand,…

A small percentage of Americans, less than 9 percent, shared links to so-called "fake news" sites on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election campaign, but this behavior was disproportionately common among people over the age of 65,…

Certain social media factors were linked with major depressive disorder (MDD) in a Journal of Applied Biobehavioural Research study of Millennials. In the study of 504 Millennials who actively use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and/or…

Stephanie Frampton's new book explores the written word in the Roman world The Roman poet Lucretius' epic work "De rerum natura," or "On the Nature of Things," is the oldest surviving scientific treatise written in Latin. Composed around…

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence CITEC disprove scientific claimCredit: CITEC/ Bielefeld University In science, the "Mona Lisa Effect" refers to the impression that the eyes of the person portrayed in an image seem to follow the…

Credit: The Dartmouth Institute Healthcare spending in the United States is the highest in the world: totaling $3.3 trillion--or 17.8% of the GDP--in 2016. To capture market share--and to expand the market--drug companies and healthcare…