Life News (Social & Behavioral Sciences)

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How much time U.S. children spend with their fathers, and what they do together.

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and "Healing the Children," have teamed up to help 24 youngsters from around the world, most of whom have needed major operations, receive medical care that would otherwise have been unavailable to them.

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Two University of Michigan students have proposed a disease prevention program that is designed to encourage teen girls on Depo-Provera to use condoms and to educate them about sexually transmitted diseases.

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Can spiritual healing play a role in diagnosing, treating and preventing disease? Furthermore, is it possible to address these questions from a scientific standpoint?

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Southwestern University recently launched a medical assistance effort to aid refugees in the Balkan nations of Macedonia and Albania by putting out a call for volunteers to alumni and friends of the Texas liberal arts college.

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A neuroonclogist from Cedars-Sinai and his wife, a pediatrician, will travel to Ireland for 12 days this July to donate medical services to 90 seriously ill European youngsters at the Barretstown Gang Camp.

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A two-part series on heart disease -- focusing particularly on the risks to Hispanic women -- was awarded a 1999 C. Everett Koop Media Award by the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate.

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Project Vote Smart, the nationally recognized, nonpartisan voter education group, and Washington State University are launching a new partnership aimed to aid both American voters and the education of WSU students.

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1- The best-and worst-of times for science teachers? 2- African fashion wraps the globe; 3- Can magnets reverse paralysis? 4- All the news that's fit to read, dude.

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Some of the talk about making people and organizations more accountable may amount to just that -- talk with little real payoff, a Carnegie Mellon University study shows.

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By second grade, a child's readiness and success in school is linked to the quality of child care received in preschool, according to a four-state study of 800 preschool children. Results of the study, started in 1993, were released today in Washington, D.C.

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On June 7, 1999, the White House will host the first ever White House Conference on Mental Health to address an issue that affects more than 50 million Americans and countless more family and friends who support loved ones living with mental illness.

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People with high levels of self-doubt have markedly different thinking patterns than do individuals who harbor lower levels of self-doubt, a new Ohio State study shows.

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Just being exposed to a story about a fictitious childhood experience can alter people's memories to the point that half of them believe the incident probably occurred even though they previously said it did not, University of Washington researchers will report at the American Psychological Society annual meeting.

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Unconscious prejudice towards blacks and the elderly can be significantly decreased by exposing people to images of admired members of those groups, University of Washington psychologists will report at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting.

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A University of Arkansas professor has conducted one of the world's first descriptive studies to examine the dangers of personal watercraft use. More than half of the people injured by these vehicles are children under the age of 14.

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Americans mark Memorial Day with cut flowers and somber graveside visits. But a University of Arkansas historian says memorial days in ages past were not always so solemn. Ancient Greeks and Romans held public festivals and threw food into tombs.

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This week, the country's leading theological experts will convene with top cancer researchers to lend their perspective to moral, ethical, religious and scientific questions about new genetic and medical technology.

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Understanding what makes the terrorist tick and being prepared to respond in the event of a terrorist attack are among the topics that will be considered at a June conference "International Terrorism: Dealing With the Unseen" hosted by the University of Illinois.

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A new book by Cornell University professor Vicki Caron describes France's response to its Jewish refugee crisis when Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933-42.

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Two new books edited by two Cornell University sociologists explore how people develop their weight-related identities and cope in social situations; how our society and culture shape weight ideals; and how weight issues become social problems.

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The University of New Hampshire's Cynthia M. Duncan, professor of sociology, researches rural poverty in America. Her latest book is the result of a five-year study of how the poverty cycle can be broken.

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Social service agencies need to do a much better job of supporting foster parents if they want to correct the shortfall of families willing to take in children, a new Ohio State study suggests.

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Precursors to Teenage Aggression and Violence, Consequences of Internet Usage, and Cancer Treatment and Prevention to be Major Themes

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To tackle a subject--American Indians--long overlooked and poorly understood in civics classes--the rights and responsibilities inherent in American Indian sovereignty--Humboldt State University will host about 200 high school students Friday, May 21, for American Indian Civics Day.

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A Purdue University expert on media and children believes kids are attracted to video games not so much by the violence, but because they present puzzles or problems to solve. He reviewed 27 studies on video games and found their overall effect on aggressiveness in children was not great.

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A UMass professor says the Littleton shootings reveal the country has not learned the lessons of past gun-related tragedies. "All the headlines are about "kids killing kids" or the "problem of youth violence." But this isn't kids killing kids, it's boys killing other boys and girls. There's something about the way in which we're raising boys that leads to this."

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Media advisory: Sandra Newman of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies has edited a new book on the interrelationship of assisted housing policy and welfare reform. She is available for interviews on the issue.

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In describing husbands and wives of conservative, evangelical families, labels such as 'helpmate' and 'breadwinner' have been used. They're not necessarily correct, says a sociologist who researches gender issues.

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Environmental law, once so straightforward in its aims and assumptions, has fragmented into five ideological camps that see issues of land use and endangered species in starkly different terms, a University of Illinois legal scholar argues.

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A new study finds that women's attitudes toward abortion and toward media depictions of abortion are far more complex than previously thought. Social class, for example, both links and divides women's views on the controversial issue, and television representations of abortion are well received by some groups of women, strongly resented by others.

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What turned into a lifetime of troubles for "B.D." began in early childhood.

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Drug policy in the United States is the most repressive and ineffective in the industrialized world, says Craig Reinarman, a sociologist who is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Drug Policy Foundation.

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Two UC Irvine researchers have identified significant differences in child and adult homicides, as well as age-related risk factors, that could lead to more effective prevention of child abuse and child homicide.

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Parents who used to worry about whether their children would get into a good college now worry about whether the kids will get into a good day care.

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In his new book, Michael K. Brown traces the roots of the racial stratification that riddles the U.S. welfare state. He shows how decisions made by both Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson shaped the scope of U.S. government aid programs and laid the groundwork for today's racially stratified system.

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A unique academic partnership of 9 Arkansas universities is changing the way students learn about social work, the way scholars work together, and the way universities serve the public.

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When it comes to court decisions, elected judges are more likely to rule in favor of the people who voted them into office, says a Ball State University researcher.

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The director of UGA's Center for International Trade and Security, who began his academic career with a study of Balkan ethnic relations, discusses NATO's bombing campaign in Kosovo and Serbia.

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James Auer, an expert on U.S.-japanese defense relations, is available to discuss ramifications of the May 3 meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and President Clinton.

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Boys fear snakes, monsters and scary theme park rides more often than girls do, while girls fear thunder storms and the dark more than boys, according to a new Ohio State study.

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Anyone who has taken an introductory psychology class or read a best-selling self-help book has been touched by the work of Elliot Aronson, a man whose researh has fundamentally shaped our knowledge of what motivates human behavior.

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U-M psychologist says working mothers are more likely to use an authoritative approach that relies on reason rather than assertions of parental power and encourages both girls and boys to be independent.

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Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn were honored April 27 in Atlanta for their efforts to "wage peace," even as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on the U.S. military role in the Balkan conflict.

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A study by an assistant professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, shows when consensus decision-making will work and when not to use it.

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The Professor of Newspaper Strategy and Management and director of UGA's Cox Institute for Newspaper Management Studies, a former foreign correspondent and vice president of the Associated Press, responded to news coverage of NATO's current bombing campaign in the Balkans.

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East African paleo-anthropological sites have yielded 2.5-million-year-old fossils of a possible direct human ancestor, a University of California-Berkeley researcher reported in Science, April 23.

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For the hundreds of thousands of refugees from Kosovo crammed into temporary shelters in Albania, psychological damage may last for years, says a Ball State University psychologist.

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Two recently published studies show that prolonged exposure to gratuitous violence in the media can escalate subsequent hostile behaviors and, among some viewers, foster greater acceptance of violence as a means of conflict resolution, according to Virginia Tech and University of Alabama researchers.

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In a new book, "Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them," a Cornell professor explains how boys become vulnerable to committing acts of violence and what parents, teachers and communities can do about it.