Moving through the stages of grief can be as unpredictable as a pinball machine, with triggers of sorrow acting like pinball rudders to send a mourner into a rebound, a Baylor researcher says.
When people set out on a 2,180-mile trail, they may be looking for recreation, gorgeous landscapes or an escape from day-to-day existence. But the 14-state Appalachian Trail also has become a modern-day pilgrimage.
New school meal guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have prompted schools to hire chefs, enlist parents and or input and recruit students to do food tastings so they can have tasty, nutritious foods, said a Baylor University dietitian.
A new political ad by presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in which he accuses President Obama of “waging war on religion,” is an opening salvo in religious rhetoric that likely will escalate as the November election approaches, predicts a Baylor University political expert and author.
Fans of Facebook hate groups, while using new media to target President Obama and his family, are relying heavily on old stereotypes of blacks as animalist, evil or shiftless — including depictions of the President as a chimp or sporting a bandana and a mouth full of gold teeth, according to a Baylor University study.
People are more likely to show forgiving behavior if they receive restitution, but they are more prone to report they have forgiven if they get an apology, according to Baylor University research published in the Journal of Positive Psychology.
Baylor professor organizes a field school to a Texas border town to exhume bodies of those that died while crossing the border for the purpose of identification and repatriation to Mexico.
A company’s share price and its CEO’s compensation can be influenced by third-party endorsements of the CEO, as well as the strategic options, called managerial discretion, that executives have at their disposal to manage the company, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Business Research.
Many churches are missing opportunities to involve Christian women in philanthropy, with ministry leaders too often speaking “man to man” — despite the fact that women now control more than 51 percent of personal wealth nationally, according to a 2012 national survey.
Research into alcohol’s effect on juvenile rats shows they have an ability to build up a physical, but not cognitive, tolerance over the short term — a finding that could have implications for adolescent humans, according to Baylor University psychologists.
As voters increasingly rely on websites of presidential primary candidates for news, they run a risk because candidates’ online attacks are not vetted through traditional “watchdog journalists” and other gatekeepers to determine accuracy or fairness, according to a study by Baylor University researchers.
How good are married couples at recognizing each other’s emotions during conflicts? In general, pretty good, according to a study by a Baylor University researcher. But if your partner is angry, that might tell more about the overall climate of your marriage than about what your partner is feeling at the moment of the dispute.
Women, “It’s Your Time, ” according to the 2012 theme of National Women’s Checkup Day on May 14. Nutrition expert Suzy Weems says schedule health screenings, but take some cues from music, too.
Hindu and Buddhist groups have grown steadily in the United States since changes in immigration laws in 1965 and 1992, according to a Baylor University professor who helped compile the newly released 2010 U.S. Religion Census.
Dr. Gary Elkins, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor University, has received the 2012 Complementary and Integrative Medicine Investigator Research Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine. The award was given in recognition of Dr. Elkins’ research into an innovative use of hypnosis for reducing hot flashes among post-menopausal women.
The ability to navigate using spatial cues was impaired in mice whose brains were minus a channel that delivers potassium — a finding that may have implications for humans with damage to the hippocampus, a brain structure critical to memory and learning, according to a Baylor University researcher.
What should be a fairy-tale day — a woman’s wedding — could turn into a nightmare for a bride-to-be who goes on a new feeding-tube diet to lose 20 pounds fast, says a Baylor University professor and a former chair of a public policy committee for the American Dietetic Association.
One hundred years after the first Eagle Scout Award was presented, new research from Baylor University in Texas has found the significant, positive impact Eagle Scouts have on society, from leadership to giving, voting to volunteering, protecting the environment and being prepared for emergencies.
As women enter the ministry, they will find that “there will be voices inside and outside telling you, ‘You’re divine’ or ‘You’re demonic.’ But both are telling you a lie,” Julie Pennington-Russell, lead pastor of the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga., told an audience of primarily women at a Baylor University conference.
The movie The Hunger Games, a story about adolescents in a post-apocalyptic survival contest, opens in theaters March 23 and offers “a perfect tale of apprehension for our time” of financial upheaval and a bleak job market, says a Baylor University culture critic and author.
The newest motion-based video games — which are more interactive than standard video game systems with gamepads — are more realistic, give a greater sense of “being there” and are more enjoyable, according to findings by communications studies researchers at Baylor University. An article about their findings, based on two experiments, will appear in the upcoming issue of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, an academic journal of MIT Press.
Fish exhibit abnormal behavior and lower levels of anxiety when exposed to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI), which are common drugs used to treat depression, among other disorders. The study, by Baylor University researchers and online in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, also found that human data for drug activity can be used to predict surface water concentrations of these substances that negatively impact fish behavior.
A team of Baylor University researchers, hosted and guided by the Baylor School of Social Work, are studying effective ways to help Soldiers and families cope before, during and after deployment through the Military Family Coping Project.
Baylor, Wellesley digitization project provides unprecedented online access to the legendary love letters between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations — with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes — than do those that rely on large companies with “absentee” owners, according to a national study by sociologists at LSU and Baylor University.
Friendships forged at church seem to play a major role in people’s religious activities and beliefs — even when it comes to their views about how exclusive heaven is, according to a national study by a Baylor University sociology researcher.
Passersby who stopped to answer surveys taken next to churches in the Netherlands and England reported themselves as more politically conservative and more negative toward non-Christians than did people questioned within sight of government buildings — a finding that may be significant when it comes to voting, according to a Baylor University study.
Humble people are more likely to offer time to someone in need than arrogant people are, according to findings by Baylor University researchers published online in The Journal of Positive Psychology.
Jesus’ mother Mary — exhausted by childbirth and the trip to Bethlehem — lies asleep in the hay. Next to her, Joseph tenderly holds the newborn son he hadn’t counted on. It’s not a conventional illustration of the Nativity. That image, in a greeting card reproduction of original art by Roger Loveless, would have startled Christians in earlier times. But that card and other more recent ones demonstrate how the story of a savior’s birth has been captured in differing ways by artists across time, say art historians at Baylor University.
Smartphone apps that deliver everything from sacred Christmas music to reminders to attend worship to Scriptures for meditation can be potent tools for spiritual growth, but such technology also has potential to diminish worship and fellowship with other believers, says a Baylor University associate professor of philosophy.
A Baylor professor suggests alternative ways families can decorate for Christmas and save money in a year when Christmas trees may be smaller and more expensive because of droughts.
Having an abusive boss not only causes problems at work but can lead to strained relationships at home, according to a Baylor University study published online in journal, Personnel Psychology. The study found that stress and tension caused by an abusive boss have an impact on the employee’s partner, which affects the marital relationship and subsequently the employee’s entire family.
A sleek white remotely-controlled robot soon will be used by Baylor University Libraries to enrich future curriculum for children in grades K-12 across Texas and perhaps the nation. Funding for cultural aspects of education has been cut drastically in many public schools, but “cultural experiences are very important to a child’s education. We’d like to see that restored,” said Pattie Orr, vice president for information technology and dean of University Libraries at Baylor.
With the Hispanic population in the United States expected to nearly triple by 2050, a Baylor University linguist has developed a course tailored to meet the crucial need for medical professionals to cross language and cultural barriers.
Texans who liberated European concentration camps are telling their stories in video interviews by the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University. The project funded by the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. Transcripts will be given to libraries and Holocaust museums in Texas.
“Educating for Wisdom in the 21st Century University,” the 2011 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, will convene Thursday, Oct. 27, through Saturday, Oct. 29. Among speakers will be Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann; Andrew Delbanco, named in 2001 by TIME Magazine as “American’s Best Social Critic”; and Anthony Kronman, former dean of Yale Law School.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, one of America’s foremost public intellectuals and Democracy Service Medal recipient from the National Endowment for Democracy, has joined the Baylor University faculty as Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion and Public Life at the Institute for Studies of Religion.
A Texas pastor’s controversial statement that Mormonism is a cult — made just moments after endorsing Texas Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry —not only will not hurt Perry’s candidacy but may even help, says a Baylor University political science lecturer and author.
Baylor survey explores link between religion and mental health, religion’s role in work and differing views of liberals and conservatives about life’s meaning.
Residents of the small Texas city of Jasper banded together in 1998 to fight their racist image following the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. Baylor researchers conducted a study for more than a decade to see how the city has struggled since being unfairly stereotyped.
Gulf War Illness (GWI)—the chronic health condition that affects about one in four military veterans of the 1991 Gulf War—appears to be the result of several factors, which differed in importance depending upon the locations where veterans served during the war, according to a Baylor University study.
Men who channeled positive thoughts into a five-week writing assignment about their testicular cancer showed signs of improved mental health afterward, in contrast to men who wrote negatively or neutrally about their condition, according to results of a Baylor University pilot study.
Was the Civil War a war about religion? The answer to this question will be discussed at the Symposium on the Civil War and Religion on Monday, Sept. 19, hosted by the Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion.
Fragments of ancient, rare manuscripts of Greek classical poetry, Greek philosophy and Judeo-Christian Scriptures are being retrieved from papier-mâché-like mummy wrappings on loan to Baylor University — all part of an international project that will give undergraduate humanities students rare hands-on research.
As a Sept. 21 execution date looms for a man convicted for his role in chaining and dragging a black man to his death, attention again will be focused on the small East Texas town of Jasper, vilified worldwide as racist after the murder in 1998.
The U.S. is safer from terrorism in the decade after 9/11, but localized threats from jihadists operating within the United States are higher than before the tragic events, says Dr. Bradley Thayer, a professor of political science at Baylor University. Thayer has served as a consultant to the RAND Corporation and has briefed the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, as well as other components of the Department of Defense.
Much has been made of so-called “flashbulb memory” — recollection of our surroundings and reactions during such events as 9/11, Pearl Harbor and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. At one point, researchers believed these to be photograph-like memories: detailed, vivid, accurate and unchanging. Not so, says a Baylor University professor of psychology and neuroscieince.
By merely stepping into a darkened booth, gripping a couple of handles and pushing a “trigger” with your thumb, you one day may be able to virtually try on garments and find the perfect fit — all without a glance in a mirror.
As if President Barack Obama doesn’t already have enough to worry about, a statistical analysis of presidential ranking surveys suggests that he is likely to be viewed as an “average” president by expert evaluators if he serves only one term, according to a Baylor University researcher.
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