Philadelphia and Baltimore television stations too often paint an inaccurate portrait of violent crime, leaving viewers feeling frightened, helpless and uninformed about real dangers, a University of Delaware researcher says in a new report.
Social Security can be saved by raising the earliest retirement age for benefits to 65 from 62, a Cornell University social security expert told a Congressional subcommittee this week.
For three decades social scientists have had little success in figuring out how a person's race affects the outcomes of crimnal cases. Now University of Washington researchers have found that court reports prepared prior to sentencing by probation officers consistenly portray black and white juvenile offenders differently, leading to harsher sentencing recommendations for blacks.
A new book published by Resources for the Future (RFF) provides teachers and students, the public policy community, and interested citizens with short and readable articles on a wide variety of environmental research and policy topics.
According to University of Michigan researchers, the Protestant ethic also makes overweight women feel bad about themselves.
Imagine a community park in Appalachia created to celebrate the area's social history and help solve acid-mine drainage problems. Or a wetlands area on a busy university campus that makes storm-water management an integral, visible part of the designed landscape.
The advantage of privilege based on gender, skin-color, age, ability or socio-economic factors will be discussed by the associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Institute of the Americas on the University of California, San Diego campus.
Joblessness, not race, is the key predictor of all forms of violent death -- homicide, accidental death and suicide -- according to a study by University of Washington demographers who looked at census data and vital records for Chicago. They also found the average life expectancy for poor black males dropped by 1 1/2 years between 1970 and 1990.
Before you get your sweetheart's name tattooed you-know-where this Valentine's Day, heed the studies of a University of Arkansas researcher who says you may be succumbing to a needle-friendly social fad.
Married couples who see each other as equals are more likely to have larger increases in blood pressure while arguing than couples who have either a highly dominate or submissive partner, according to new research from the University of Utah.
A new study on premarital relationship development in this month's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology explores how love improves over time for romantic couples if satisfaction and commitment increase too. Satisfaction and commitment were as, or more, important than love for couples in their desire to stay together, according to llinois State University researchers.
Ethics professors lead 2-day conference at Johns Hopkins University, working with police on applying ethics to daily police decisionmaking
Married couples who see each other as equals are more likely to have larger increases in blood pressure while arguing than couples who have either a highly dominate or submissive partner, according to new research from the University of Utah.
A U.S. Education Dept. grant will help center help policy makers help people with disabilities find and keep meaningful, well-paid work.
With the celebration of Black History Month in February, Americans look back on the civil rights movement in many ways. But a researcher at the University of Arkansas offers a startling new perspective -- one that reminds us how lucky we were.
The cause of much of the conflict between the sexes isn't just that men are not monogamous. According to a University of Michigan author, the underlying trouble is that we humans are anisogamous---we have sex cells of unequal size.
St. Lawrence University Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett is hoping to draw attention to a community he visited in South Africa last year, and that the attention will result in government assistance to move the community's residents to a safer environment.
Cohabitation tends to attract people with different economic circumstances than those who opt directly for marriage, says Marin Clarkberg, assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University. Men and women with less stable job histories tend to cohabitate as do higher-earning women but lower-earning men.
If you're planning to buy your Valentine the standard $5 box of no-name chocolates this year, you may get more than you bargained for. In a consumer behavior study on chocolate, University of Utah marketing professors found that the ostensibly innocuous candy is emotionally charged and capable of eliciting feelings of guilt and uncontrolled desire, causing some women to hoard, hide or even steal chocolate from others and some men to actively police the consumption of their feminine companions.
University of San Francisco professor can discuss change of leadership in Jordan after King Hussein's passing.
The best solution to the Y2K problem is snarled in a web of human organizational behaviors, says Allan Hanson, cultural anthropologist at the University of Kansas. Hanson argues that the Y2K solution requires a maximum flow of information. Cooperation, not competition, is needed to find solutions for this complicated problem.
With Valentine's Day approaching, love is in the air. It's also in the brain, more deeply ingrained than language itself. Romantic love - i.e., the act of falling love, not to be confused with that other basic instinct, lust - is a primal emotion as basic as fear, according to a Vanderbilt University researcher.
Seeing witnesses during the impeachment trail will not help senators determine the truth, says a University of Virginia authority on lying. In more than 100 studies of people with no special training in detecting deception, such as the senators, accuracy in determining lying averages only 54 percent.
People engaging in frequent sexual activity are also reducing their risks of getting the common cold, according to a study, "The Effect of Sexual Behavior on Immune System Function," by researchers at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
In a study of reactions to a scary movie, Purdue University communication researchers found that some people will tell you that they were not frightened, but physical measures indicate otherwise.
A combination of an insecure man with a dismissive woman may make domestic violence more likely in a relationship, a new Ohio State University study suggests.
When 11-month-olds at an Ohio State University laboratory school want to eat, they don't have to cry: they can use their hands to sign for a bottle. As part of a pilot program, infants as young as 9 months old and their teachers have learned to use sign language.
A new book highlights five controversial "Crimes of the Century," exposing much more than the underlying tensions of our criminal justice system. The cases -- including Leopold and Loeb (1924), Scottsboro (from 1931), Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1932), Alger Hiss (1949) and O.J. Simpson (1994) -- also offer provocative insights into the nation's passions, politics and prejudices.
The number of women and underrepresented minority group members earning baccalaureate to doctoral degrees in Science and Engineering (S&E) fields rose as much as 68 percent from 1985 and 1995, according to a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Science Resources Studies (SRS) Data Brief.
American working, married couples would prefer to work less but they work more hours than ever. That's because today's workplace doesn't offer enough part-time jobs, reported a Cornell University sociologist. Many women choose to stay home rather than enter the 'all or nothing' workplace which has not adapted to the changing patterns of employee preferences, she said.
Couples who wish they could work less, who have demanding jobs or both work more than 45 hours a week report the lowest quality of life among working couples, according to a Cornell University sociologist. Couples in which both partners work regular full-time hours -- especially when the wives are in nonprofessional jobs -- report the highest quality of life, even higher than when one partner works part-time.
A group of scholars from around the world are gathering next month at Colorado College to address globalization and intercultural dynamics in the next century in a three-day series of lectures, debates, and open discussions.
As the United States enters a new millennium, a Purdue University sociologist says we must move beyond simple rhetoric to really understand race relations. In his recently released book, "Diversity and Unity," a professor of sociology, takes a look at different approaches to handling racial and ethnic diversity.
Teens who commit suicide often leave many telltale warnings -- including signs of depression and alcohol abuse -- that parents miss, says a Ball State University study.
Smith historian's new book overturns image of "Feminine Mystique" author as conventional suburban housewife. Documents locate Betty Friedan's radical roots in her Smith College days--and even earlier.
Three percent of North Carolina middle school students had carried a gun onto school property and 14.1 percent had carried a knife or club to school, a research team from Brenner Children's Hospital and the Brenner Center for Child and Adolescent Health report in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Since 1990, Northeast Passage, at the University of New Hampshire, has served as an impact program to improve access, independence and quality of life for individuals with disabilities. This year's winter sports schedule includes sled hockey; cross country skiing (U.S. disabled team members will be instructing).
The launch of the euro by European Union will ultimately generate ramifications in the political arena that will eclipse the economic impact and foreverchange the international landscape says former U.S. Minister Counselor to the European Union Jonathan Greenwald.
Children in crowded homes do worse in school and fight more with their parents than kids in uncrowded homes, according to a Cornell University stuby by an environmental stress expert to be published in the December 1998 issue of Child Development.
A University of Vermont College of Medicine researcher has been selected to head a White House-appointed panel of experts to develop the largest-ever national youth anti-drug media campaign.
Smoking rates among secondary school students have started to turn downward.
University of Michigan scientists conclude in their 1998 national survey that illicit drug use by this population is finally heading down after six years of steady increases.
While members of the U.S. Senate struggle with what to do with the impeachment papers Congress passed on, one politics professor says the Clinton affair is small stuff compared to Watergate and Iran-Contra.
Two thirds of Lutheran social ministry agencies nationwide report increased requests for services in the wake of government welfare reform. Those are among the conclusions of a report, "The Impact of Welfare Reform on Lutheran Social Ministry Organization."
Johns Hopkins political scientist and constitutional law scholar Joel Grossman is available to comment on impeachment proceedings.
Johns Hopkins graduate students completing a 13-week study recommend urban revitalization strategies and better data collection to Baltimore officials.
A four-year, $19 million project will study the impact of welfare reform on children and their families.
Increased punishment of juveniles reduces the amount of crime they commit in a way similiar to the impact punishment has for adults, according to a new paper by a University of Chicago economist.
A University at Buffalo study, the first to use Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to compare the cognitive functions of men and women has found definitive evidence that although in many respects male and female brains operate in much the same way, they function differently when performing complex linguistic tasks.
While an occasional bout of anxiety is normal, people who are particularly sensitive to anxiety symptoms run a greater risk of developing psychological problems or even physical illness, new research at Ohio State suggests.
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