http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Students who watch as their peers endure the verbal or physical abuses of another student could become as psychologically distressed, if not more so, by the events than the victims themselves, new research suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news180015329.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:16:39 EST news180015329 (PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures, could provide the way forward for such data-intensive content searches, say European researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news177780052.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:01 EST news177780052 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Internet has become a popular socializing tool for adolescents and a new study shows those with chronic health conditions might rely on it more heavily than their peers do. http://www.physorg.com/news176574795.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:33:55 EST news176574795 It would be difficult to find someone who has never felt shame in their life. Shame is a common reaction when someone feels that they have fallen below social norms or their own standards. http://www.physorg.com/news171646803.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:50:01 EST news171646803 High-school put-downs are such a staple of teen culture that many educators don't take them seriously. However, a University of Illinois study suggests that classroom disruptions and psychologically hostile school environments can contribute to a climate in which good students have difficulty learning and students who are behind have trouble catching up. http://www.physorg.com/news171026362.html Other Sciences Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:30:01 EST news171026362 Even very early in Alzheimer's disease, people become less efficient at separating important from less important information, a new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news160635111.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 05:52:47 EST news160635111 Women have traditionally been viewed as being more social and cooperative than men. However, there is recent evidence that this may not be the case. In fact, studies have shown that men maintain larger social networks with other males compared to women and tend to have longer lasting friendships with members of the same-sex than do women. Psychologist Joyce F. Benenson from Emmanuel College, along with her colleagues from Harvard University and the Universite du Quebec a Montreal wanted to compare males' and females' levels of tolerance towards same-sex peers. http://www.physorg.com/news153576647.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:11:27 EST news153576647 It has been shown (and probably experienced by all of us) that performing worse than our peers on a particular task results in negative self-esteem and poorer subsequent performance on the same task. How people respond when their peers perform better than they do has been studied in a variety of age groups and it turns out that preschoolers have thicker skin than adults do! Previous research has shown that preschoolers (4-5 year old children) maintain positive self-evaluations and high levels of performance even when they see that their peers have out-performed them. This is thought to occur because young children believe that achievement differences between themselves and their peers are adaptable; in other words, they think that if they try harder, they will be able to do as well as their peers in the future. http://www.physorg.com/news144592447.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:34:07 EST news144592447 Birds of a feather flock together, according to the old adage, and adolescent males who possess a certain type of variation in a specific gene are more likely to flock to delinquent peers, according to a landmark study led by Florida State University criminologist Kevin M. Beaver. http://www.physorg.com/news142076585.html Biology Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:43:05 EST news142076585 New research challenges a growing trend toward holding kids out of kindergarten until they're older, arguing that academic advantages are short-lived and come at the expense of delaying entry into the workforce and other costs. http://www.physorg.com/news138290721.html Other Sciences Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:05:21 EST news138290721 In metropolitan China, high school students' self-esteem depends more on good relations with peers than parents, a new UC Davis study shows. But the opposite is true for younger adolescents and young adults: Both base their self-esteem more on good relations with parents. http://www.physorg.com/news137938456.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:14:16 EST news137938456 The peer groups teenage girls identify with determine how they decide to control their own figure. So reports a new study by Dr. Eleanor Mackey from the Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC, and her colleague Dr. Annette La Greca from the University of Miami. Also influencing weight control behavior is girls' own definition of normal body weight and their perception of what others consider normal body weight. These results have just been published online in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, a Springer publication. http://www.physorg.com/news134129305.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:08:25 EST news134129305