According to the World Values survey, weekly church attendance is higher in the United States than in any other nation at a similar level of development. In addition, religious attitudes and behaviors among nations are compared as well as how religious beliefs of each society have changed over the years.
A professor of history at Fairfield University, who specializes in Latin America and Cuba in particular, has been in Cuba for the last two summers with the Center for Cuban Studies, which is based in New York City. Now with its own native clergy and even an archbishop who is Cuban, the time had come to address the situation of the Church in Cuba.
Research and trends in volunteering will be the subject of the National Forum on Life Cycles and Volunteering: The Impact of Work, Family, and Mid-Life Issues, held April 30 and May 1, 1998 at Cornell University.
One hundred thousand traffic accidents caused by drivers falling asleep claim some 1,500 lives each year in the United States, while sleep deprivation and sleep disorders cost the American economy at least $150 billion a year, according to Cornell University psychologist James Maas, author of a new book, "Power Sleep."
New idea: Convert closed military bases into "renewal communities"-- tightly regulated small towns giving thousands of Americans on welfare a fresh start in life.
After years of working in a dark, windowless laboratory to understand speech perception and how speech can be communicated by machines, UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Dominic Massaro is realizing his dream of using advanced technology to help deaf children learn to speak.
As Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches, a University of Maine political scientist has tracked use of King's legacy for political gain. She found in a recent study that King's status as an American hero has been used to promote disparate political views and policies, with significant omissions and distortions of his views.
The pendulum in 'pop psychology' is swinging back to being in favor of spanking, warns Dr. Roni Leiderman, director of the Family Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. She also is the moderator for America Online's "Parent Trap."
The University of New Mexico School of Law pioneered clinical law in the early 1970s and over the years has become a recognized leader in the field. Every year some 110 second and third-year students rotate through the mandatory Clinical Law Program, gaining hands-on, real-life experience practicing law.
Women's groups claim Super Bowl Sunday is the "biggest day of the year for violence against women." Brett Drake of Washington University co-authored a study which found no correlation between reported cases of child abuse and the broadcast of national playoff games for baseball, basketball or football.
Jean-Pierre Habicht, M.D., of Cornell University has published study in Lancet that finds that when refugees sell food, it's not because they have too much but are desperate for other staples and supplies such as salt and soap.
Communists generally view religion as the opium of the masses but can this "opium" save Marxism-Leninism? Yes, says Andres I. Perez y Mena, associate professor of educational anthropology at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. "The Catholic Church traditionally has been anti-capitalist and the revolutionary leadership now wants to claim Christianity as a substitute model for socialism," he says.
A Purdue University study sheds new light on the old practice of marrying for money. A Purdue University study of preretirement persons showed that people who never married had only 14 percent of the financial assets that married persons had accumulated. Divorced people who did not remary had only 15 percent.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - As Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches, it's time to stop praising the slain civil rights leader only for his accomplishments in the United States and to start viewing him as an international leader, says Vanderbilt University professor Lewis V. Baldwin.
A study by the National Research Council released January 6 recommends limiting mandatory reporting of abuse. Two economists have research, however, showing that simply the threat by an abused woman to use a shelter often can improve her situation.
If liars really had pants on fire then there would be plenty of bonfires inside the beltway .If you ever examine topics relating to lying and corruption, here are some sources who can prove useful.
ìUsers can achieve more intimacy on-line than they commonly do face-to-face,î according to research by Joseph Walther, assistant professor of communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
If there is life on Mars, it won't include those insensitive men popularized in best-selling books and on talk shows, a Purdue University communication expert says.
In "A Morbid Fascination: White Prose and Politics in Apartheid South Africa" (Greenwood Press), Richard Peck, professor of international affairs, uses the lens of literature to examine South Africa's political culture. He finds a dislike of politics at the same time he finds a preoccupation with political issues.
For two years, Priscilla Kurz ignored the funny little patch of dried skin on her elbow, assuming it wasn't anything more than a minor irritation. But just days before the 20-year-old college student was scheduled to board a plane for Athens, Greece, where she had arranged to study for the year, she started breaking out uncontrollably.
The federal government's recent attempts to settle claims relating to human radiation experiments during the Cold War doesn't address the problems of radium poisoning that occurred during the years before World War II. The plight of a group of women known as the "radium girls," who from 1910 to 1935 found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning, is the subject of a new book by a Central Michigan University history professor.
Since 1992, with funding from NC State, the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NC State University linguists have been visiting Ocracoke Island on North Carolina's Outer Banks, interviewing, recording, and making friends with the islanders in an effort to preserve some of the rich dialects' heritage.
Since 1983 Dr. Anne Schiller has been traveling to Central Kalimantan Province in Indonesian Borneo to study tiwah, the essence of which involves disinterring the bones of kin, cleaning them and placing them in above-ground bone repositories in preparation for life in the Prosperous Village. She has published a book on nine years of research, "Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity Among the Ngaju of Indonesia."
The desire for effective family planning is as old as Eve, herself, says Dr. John Riddle, professor and head of the history department at North Carolina State University. From the earliest times, women sipped herbal teas and potions made from rue, pennyroyal or Queen Anne's lace to prevent or terminate pregnancies.
Public trials of government officials accused of mass atrocities can be quite effective in helping countries heal their psychic wounds, University of Iowa Law Professor Mark Osiel argues in a new book that has attracted attention from judges currently investigating war crimes. "Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law" (Transaction Publishers, 1997) lays out Osiel's arguments that the law -- and its manifestation in public trials -- can help societies make sense of their with traumatic pasts.
A Johns Hopkins University professor is promoting scholarship and research on the decline of civility, manners and politeness. Pier Massimo Forni teaches courses on the issue and recently founded the Johns Hopkins Civility Project, which will hold an international symposium in March 1998.
How do ethnicity and race affect health? Exploring answers to this question is one goal of Long Island University/Brooklyn Campus' new Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Human Development, directed by Psychology Professor Carol Magai.
An expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago studies what he calls the "real relationships" between domestic violence and substance abuse.
Chicago's Richard J. Daley was the best American big-city mayor since 1960, and Philadelphia's Frank Rizzo was the worst, according to a nationwide poll of 69 urban historians and political scientists conducted by a history professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
A family member's suicide affects "survivors" in ways that go beyond grief over the death of a loved one, causing emotional reactions that resemble post-traumatic stress disorder and should be treated as such, says an expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago who works with suicide survivors and researches ways to help them best cope with their emotions and loss.
Researchers have spent decades studying the political opinions and behavior of whites and African-Americans. But far less is known about political attitudes of Latinos, say two University of Illinois at Chicago political scientists who have conducted some of the first surveys designed to find out how Chicago Latinos think about politics and act on their beliefs.
Health related pledges are the most common form of New Year's resolutions and researchers have found that a person's confidence that he or she can make a behavior change and the commitment to making that change are the keys to achieving resolutions.
Fairfield University students have won the 1997 Gold Medal for Overall Excellence from Hunger Cleanup.
A study conducted in California reported that children of divorce are more prone to alcohol and substance abuse problems and do less well academically and in society in general.
Commonly considered a disease affecting younger people, AIDS rapidly is becoming a part of older people's lives -- as care givers, family members, friends and patients.
Seniors who enter nursing homes to recuperate after surgery aren't likely to stay there long, according to Miami University sociologist and anthropologist.
White supremacists, militia groups, and conspiracy theorists may seem on the fringe, but they should be taken very seriously, says a sociologist and anthropologist at Miami University of Ohio.
Young deer hunters who bring home a trophy buck during firearm season also may be returning with an unwanted acquisition: permanent hearing loss. The results of a new survey by a Central Michigan University audiologist show that most young recreational firearm shooters between the ages of 18 and 30 are in danger of permanently damaging their hearing.
Persons choosing to live outside of urban centers can expect to pay a social cost, primarily in their adult income levels.
What is it about the New Year that compels people to make resolutions? Michael Penn, assistant professor of psychology at Franklin & Marshall College believes it's the tone time of year when people drop their typically cynical views of human nature and hope for a positive change.
Cornell University Professor of Human Development Ritch Savin-Williams analyzes developmental milestones and turning points of 180 gay young men with generous excerpts from their poignant and diverse personal stories.
A new book by Joan Jacobs Brumberg discusses how early menarche and new focus on body parts put young girls in peril. They have become so preoccupied with their bodies that they spend much of their energy managing and maintaining their looks at the expense of their creativity and mental and physical health, she says.
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