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.
For most of Douglas Mitchell's adult life, he has been giving voice to ancient tongues such as Old Icelandic and Sanskritoboth of which he teaches at Rice. But there were other voices flying around in his head, and they wanted out.
Internationally known multimedia performance artist Ping Chong will present production of "Undesirable Elements" with eight Hamilton College students
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
President Clinton today awarded 20 National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported researchers, including nine women and three minorities, with the 1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Babson College announces the rollout of the QuestGen Assessment System. The online software system, allows college students to assess and improve their academic skills.
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.
While most college presidents across the nation are announcing their annual tuition price hikes to increase revenue, the C.E.O. of one small college in the hills of southern Vermont is doing just the opposite. Marlboro College's president announced an 8% decrease in tuition, allowing students to save more than $6,000 off of the price of their bachelor's degree.
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.
Cultural observers sometimes contend that today's twenty- and thirty-somethings lack the common experience that binds previous generations. But a Swarthmore College professor and his co-author brother take exception in a new book. The members of Generation X do have something in common, Timothy and Kevin Burke claim --the Saturday morning cartoons they devoured with their Cap'n Crunch back in their childhood.
The National Science Foundation will host a ceremony at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Va., to honor the 20 NSF recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
In today's world of fast-paced communication,, who has time for old-fashioned love letters? Just about everybody, says a professor of communication at North Carolina State University and one of the nation's top experts on the use and abuse of interactive media. The ease and speed of e-mail is helping revive the art of intimate correspondence, he says.
Dr. Judy Kuriansky, psychologist and host of the popular nationally-syndicated radio show "LovePhones," has unveiled the BLUES IN THE BEDROOM campaign, a program to prompt frank discussion among patients and doctors about sexual problems and antidepressant therapies.
University of San Francisco professor can discuss change of leadership in Jordan after King Hussein's passing.
A well-known philanthropist, a Nobel laureate and leading culture critics will be among the many scholars and other experts who will participate in a major symposium on the future of the liberal arts college to be hosted by Trinity College on Feb 22-23.
The new chair of Temple University's philosophy department, is trying to shed philosophy's crusty old image of elitism.
A living document of the black experience in America, the second edition of The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture traces critical periods in African American life with charts, maps, text and photographs in color and black-and-white.
A Johns Hopkins University anthropologist is studying the nature of romantic love in various cultures and is teaching a course called "The Anthropology of Love." She is available as a source for Valentine's Day stories.
A new CD-ROM produced by Ball State University is the long-awaited response to help alleviate the growing problem of cheating among college students.
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.
The Vassar College/New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Summer Theater Program for theater is accepting applications for the 1999 season.
Blind students throughout the country now have access to inexpensive instructional tactile materials thanks to a new Purdue University Web site. TAEVIS Online is an electronic library containing more than 2,500 tactile diagrams from college-level course material such as graphs, chemical structures and biological drawings
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.
A St. John's University English professor has edited an anthology of poetry by physicians entitled Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians, newly released by the University of Iowa Press.
St. John's University's Psychology Department is offering a doctoral program in School Psychology.
Mosquitoes will be the guests of honor Feb. 20 at the University of Illinois, and those who come to see them are invited to get pumped for blood. It's the 16th annual Insect Fear Film Festival, which this year will feature a blood drive.
When Diamond Dallas Paige and Sting apply a scorpion death lock to their opponents, thousands of fans cheer them on. Mississippi State research seeks to understand what attracts the fans to a sport skyrocketing in popularity.
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.
Looking for a way to boost your child's interest in reading? Experts say something as old as the human voice and as new as cyberspace may help.
Logic would suggest that students who struggle most in the classroom would ask most for help. Instead, they are often the most reluctant, says a professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois.
A fledgling university partnership that seeks to build racial understanding has produced some heated classroom exchanges but also some eye-opening discussion between students from different backgrounds. The unique partnership, called "Building Community Through Technology," links students from Central Michigan University, a predominantly white university, and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a historically black institution.
The University of California, San Diego has received an $863,000 grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to fund a groundbreaking new civic effort that will initiate a new dialogue between UCSD faculty and the San Diego community, with the aim of better integrating the university's research and teaching expertise with community needs and interests.
Kids in elementary school are being put at risk by computer workstations that have been designed with little or no regard for children's musculoskeletal health, according to a Cornell University study.
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.
News that Cesar Chavez will be inducted into the U.S. Labor Department's Hall of Fame on Jan. 28 came as no surprise to one North Carolina State University scholar, who for decades has studied and written about Chavez's lifework.
The Marketing Club, a student group at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and an associate professor of marketing at the school will meet the week after the SuperBowl to analyze the ads that aired the previous Sunday and try to decide if advertisers got their money's worth and made good marketing decisions.
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 historian of technology who has studied the automobile, Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex has now turned his attention to what he calls the "Eighth Wonder of the Modern World:" Las Vegas. And he's scheduled a field trip for his students.
An associate professor of social medicine and history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named one of 10 international recipients of a $1 million James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship.
The National Science Foundation honored 338 outstanding new science and engineering faculty members nationwide in fiscal year 1998 with Faculty Early Career Development awards totaling approximately $80 million.
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Cornell University psychologist Thomas Gilovich and financial journalist Gary Belsky is about "behavioral economics," including the cognitive and motivational shortcomings that make even smart people act unwisely with their money.
A powerful exhibition of photography from the Civil Rights movement opens Friday, January 15, 1999, in the Prints and Drawings Galleries at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College and will run through Sunday, March 7, 1999.
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