The U.S. has a new dollar coin, and at least as intriguing as the dancing, snorkeling George Washington as pitchman is the choice of Sacajawea to grace the coin itself -- and how she has been packaged for consumption over more than a century.
For months the media and the nation focused on the fate of a single Cuban-born ward of the state named Elian and learned about every aspect of his life. Yet the public knows next to nothing about another half-million children in its collective care.
A new study finds that for people living with AIDS or HIV, the conventional wisdom about "more information being better than less," doesn't always apply (Communication Monographs).
Successfully using behavioral techniques to keep drug addicts abstinent, Johns Hopkins researchers have formed a non-profit data processing company to employ the addicts and provide them with monetary incentives to stay off drugs.
While many politicians and pundits will continue to rail against the inaccuracy of polls, Americans believe overwhelmingly that polls are generally reliable and necessary -- even if the public, itself, knows little about polling procedures, say University of Michigan researchers.
Learning when to suckle is one of the most important life skills newborn mammals have to acquire in order to survive. Research in the June Behavioral Neuroscience shows a strong link between odor and suckling and that there is a powerful learning mechanism behind a newborn's suckling behavior.
In the 1996 presidential election, voter turnout plummeted to its lowest point since 1924. Now, an Arkansas political scientist predicts that participation in the year 2000 election may drop even lower.
Almost 46 million Americans struggle with stuttering, articulation and other speech disorders; in a new book, a speech pathologist reveals that in nearly every case he faced in 40 years of practice the cause was an oral habit.
An assistant professor of government and international relations at Centre College is an expert on Middle Eastern affairs and has been closely monitoring the historic disbanding of the Israeli militia in Lebanon.
A novel treatment for dyslexia not only helps children to significantly improve their reading but also shows that the brain changes as dyslexics learn.
The findings of a new study reveal enormous differences in net worth between elderly white people and elderly black people. The differences can be attributed in part to education, number of years worked and investment habits. If social security is privatized, will this have an adverse effect on minority and working poor net worth in retirement?
Studies show words make up only seven percent of communication, while body language accounts for more than half. Hand gesturing has been viewed as meaningless by some, but two University of Missouri-Columbia studies show that it is an integral part of communication.
Mary Brown Bullock, President of Agnes Scott College and an experienced China hand, will be in Beijing from May 20 - 27, during the pending key vote to pass the year's most contentious legislation: a bill granting China permanent normal trade relations.
An Ohio State study of 309 personal e-mail users in Ohio found that nearly half say they make fewer long-distance telephone calls since they've gone online. But the results also showed e-mail and telephone conversations each met different needs for users.
Behavioral health care saves money, saves lives, and serves community interests, according to a fact sheet demonstrating "Behavioral Health Is an Integral Part of Overall Health" from NAPHS.
Children in the sixth grade may suffer adverse cognitive, behavioral and emotional consequences due to an increased risk of being chronically sleep deprived, according to a new study in the May Developmental Psychology.
1- Alcohol plays a role in most instances of fan violence; 2- As summer travel season approaches, minorities still need to be leery of racial profiling by police; 3- Interest rate hikes hit poor the most.
Two University of Michigan professors have devised an approach to "harnessing" complexity, turning it into a tool for desirable change.
"When Your Retirement Plan Changes," an online booklet from the American Academy of Actuaries, helps you understand how changes to your pension can affect retirement planning.
"Powwow 2000: Remembering Carlisle Indian School" will be a gathering of alumni and their descendents of the country's first off-reservation boarding school for Native American children and will draw people from all over the country, says a Swarthmore College instructor of English.
A new study finds that young, single women maintain conservative attitudes about marriage despite the fact that their mothers advocate personal and financial independence.
To prevent disrespect of religion from discouraging patients from seeking professional help, BYU psychologists have compiled a APA handbook that informs mental health care practitioners about the various spiritual beliefs, rituals and traditions of their clients.
Cultivating positive emotions produces an upward spiral that broadens habitual modes of thinking and acting, and builds personal resources for coping, says Barbara L. Fredrickson, a University of Michigan assistant professor of psychology who received the Templeton Positive Psychology Prize for her innovative broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.
A University of Michigan researcher has received the largest monetary prize ever awarded in the field of psychology for creating a new theory explaining the beneficial effects of positive emotion.
A study of more than 10,000 mother-infant pairs has found that more than one-fifth of one-month old babies shared a bed with their parents for most of the night. Bed sharing was more common among infants being breastfed or those born to young, unmarried, or low-income women.
The state of youth in Chicago and across the nation will be explored at a one-day community forum to take place May 18 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Why should recent elections in faraway Taiwan concern Americans? One of the top scholars on Taiwan-China-U.S. policy shows why.
Princeton researchers found that many more people than previously thought are likely to identify with more than one race in the 2000 census; the results of the count may pose new challenges for making civil rights policies and tracking inequalities (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5-16-00).
Youths convicted in juvenile court had significantly higher mean concentrations of lead in their bones, compared with non-delinquent controls. Results held for whites and African Americans, males and females.
It is said that hindsight is 20-20. According to new research, hindsight bias -- the way our impression of how we acted or would have acted changes when we learn the outcome of an event -- is actually a by-product of a cognitive mechanism that allows us to unclutter our minds by discarding inaccurate information and embracing that which is correct.
Allegations made by child victims of sexual abuse closely match the confessions of perpetrators. In addition, physical exams are unreliable indicators of sexual abuse.
From 1988 to 1997, 95 percent of the 250 highest-grossing motion pictures depicted tobacco use and more than half the movies analyzed featured tobacco use by a major character; nearly 70 percent of tobacco use involved cigarettes, 20 percent involved cigars.
Six-year-old children had high exposures to violent events over a 12-month period, and those witnessing violence were more likely to have behavior problems.
Preschool children who frequently watch violent television shows or play violent video games are much more likely to engage in aggressive, destructive, and antisocial behavior.
A study of 113 inner-city children found that by the age of 7, 74 percent had heard guns being shot and 13 percent had seen someone in their home get shot or stabbed. Children with more exposure to violence had lower grade-point averages, lower self-esteem and greater depression and anxiety.
Children with fathers in their lives learn better, have higher self-esteem and show fewer signs of depression than do children without fathers. The study examined from a child's perspective the role a father plays in the behavioral and mental development of his children.
A study of 290 women found no difference in the percentage of women reporting domestic violence, whether or not the women were told of a law mandating physicians to report such incidents to a state agency.
1- The conditions that created the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia 15 years ago still exist; 2- Graduation is just days away but already many Temple students have great jobs; 3- High-tech firms are looking for liberal arts grads.
A national survey of more than 6,700 adolescents in grades 5-12 found that adolescents who have been sexually abused are more likely to smoke, drink, use drugs, have disordered eating habits, and consider suicide than those who have not.
In planning a wedding, stick to daily routines to control stress; think about managing time and finances better, develop a plan of action, take smaller bites, manage money and other resources more realistically and avoid excessive debt, says a Texas Tech Medical Center professional.
According to a new scientific study, Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, and they all share a common genetic lineage that stretches back thousands of years (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5-9-00).
King Croesus' Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of Gold, by Cornell University archaeologist Andrew Ramage and Paul Craddock of the British Museum, documents the excavation in Sardis, Turkey, of a gold refinery that belonged to legendary Lydian emperor King Croesus, the world's first millionaire.
A program meant to teach young children basic safety skills seems to lack the desired effect, a new Ohio State study suggests (Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine).
Are consumers manipulated into buying things they don't want? BU history professor Regina Blaszczyk, in "Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning," reveals that leading manufacturers of home goods devote considerable effort to learn their customers' priorities and preferences.
Don't look for the one "true" interpretation of the Second Amendment -- the controversial amendment concerning the right to bear arms -- because it doesn't exist, according to an Ohio State scholar who edited a new book on the topic.
The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting a national conference May 22-24 to explore future trends in poverty issues.
With healthcare and work environments changing at light speed, psychologists are examining the possibility of having prescription privileges, the advantages and disadvantages of online therapy, ways to reduce workplace violence and discrimination and the medical and societal implications of gene therapy.
If a common heritage conferred peace, then the history of conflict in the Middle East may have been resolved years ago. For, according to a new study, Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, and they all share a common genetic lineage that stretches back thousands of years.
The Islamic rebel group Abu Sayyaf, which is fighting for an independent homeland in the Philippines, has brought a wave of terror to that country.
A new University of Michigan study not only corroborates prior research that African Americans are more likely than whites to be portrayed as criminals on television news, it also surprisingly reveals that Latinos are less likely to be depicted as perpetrators---when compared with actual crime statistics.
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