Most young children are essentialists: They believe that human and animal characteristics are innate. That kind of reasoning can lead them to think that traits like native language and clothing preference are intrinsic rather than acquired.
But a new study from Concordia University suggests that certain bilingual kids are more likely to understand that it's what one learns, rather than what one is born with, that makes up a person's psychological attributes.
Women who are told that men desire larger-body women who aren't model-thin are happier with their weight, according to a series of three independent surveys which suggest a woman's body image is strongly linked to her perception of what she thinks men prefer, said lead author and social psychologist Andrea Meltzer of Southern Methodist University.
An estimated 100 million Americans live with chronic pain. A new report by an independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health has found a need for evidence-based, multidisciplinary approaches to pain treatment that incorporate patients' perspectives and desired outcomes while also avoiding potential harms.
Half of young drivers who died in car crashes in U. S. states such as California, Hawaii and West Virginia were under the influence of either alcohol or marijuana, or both. This is according to the statistics for fatal road accidents involving 16- to 25-year olds in nine U.S. states. Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the data to gauge how possible policy changes could influence substance use among adolescents and young adults. The study, led by Katherine M.
From 2004 to 2012, the rate of investment in medical research in the U.S. declined, while there has been an increase in research investment globally, particularly in Asia, according to a study in JAMA (doi:10.1001/jama.2014.15939).
Among nearly 375,000 U.S. women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, the likelihood of diagnosis at an early stage, and survival after stage I diagnosis, varied by race and ethnicity, with much of the difference accounted for by biological differences, according to a study.
Disillusioned young people are being conned into fighting for a global army. EPA
By Akil N Awan, Lecturer in Political Violence & Terrorism at Royal Holloway
Over 10 percent of patients using aspirin therapy for primary cardiovascular disease prevention were likely either inappropriately prescribed it or do it over the counter, according to a new study that examined practice variations in aspirin therapy.
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life," wrote Samuel Johnson. And that was in the 18th century. Since they have Arsenal, it is a much better place now.
Physicians can refer patients for medical services to enterprises in which they have a financial stake, which has a logical basis - a wheezing smoker that needs a CT scan of his lungs can conveniently get one if that doctor happens to own a diagnostic imaging clinic in the same building.
Young children with disruptive behaviors do worse than their focused peers and have high maintenance temperaments, characterized by high physical activity, low ability to persist at tasks, and negative reactions to even minor situations.
A new study Early Childhood Research Quarterly finds that kindergartners and first graders with high maintenance temperaments showed less disruptive behavior and more active engagement and on-task behavior in the classroom, thanks to a program that helps teachers, parents, and students recognize and adapt to individual differences.
When it comes to youth violence, the perpetrators get the most attention while victims only make the news stories. But widespread violence among adolescents can place them on a lifelong trajectory of aggression -- either as victims or perpetrators -- endangering their sexual and reproductive health now and in the future.
Even decades after being cured, many cancer survivors face physical and mental challenges, from physical problems such as sexual dysfunction to anxiety about getting cancer again to financial hardships, resulting from their disease and its treatment.
20 years after the actual disease is defeated, survivors continue to fight its effects, concludes a study led by University of Central Florida social work professor Mary Ann Burg.
If you are a business owner or an architect or most of the public, graffiti is just a vain effort by amateur artists to have an impact they won't get in the real world of art - but a sociologist wants to rehabilitate that image.
Michigan State University sociologist Toby Ten Eyck argues that graffiti, which is commonly perceived as disenfranchised or troublemaking kids engaging in visual pollution, is instead art. And media needs to start portraying it that way.
In 1961, with memories of Holocaust atrocities and the prosecution of Nazi officials at Nuremburg still fresh, psychologist Stanley Milgram undertook a series of now infamous experiments on obedience and reprehensible behavior.
About two-thirds of Milgram's nearly 800 study subjects, pressed by an authoritative experimenter, were willing to administer increasingly powerful electric shocks to an unseen stranger despite cries of agony and pleas to stop.