News tagged with female student
Survivors of violence benefit from mentoring
Can mentoring relationships help female students who survive childhood abuse or domestic violence? Absolutely, according to new research from Concordia University, published in the Journal of College Student Development.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Football team success throws fall grades of non-athletic college males for a loss
(PhysOrg.com) -- College football bowl season is in prime time, and a new report card is in: Male grades drop relative to female grades when their college football team performs well during the regular season.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 30, 2011 |
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High-energy lifestyles led to evolution of the sexes
Scientists are a step closer to explaining one of the most enduring mysteries of modern biology; why are there males and females?
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Optimism helps females achieve higher grades - males score lower when overconfident: study
Female students who were more optimistic achieved significantly higher grades than their less optimistic peers, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers. For male students, however, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Study finds overweight teens want to lose weight, going about it the wrong way
About 14 percent of Philadelphia's high school students are considered overweight, and while a myriad of research has been published on what schools, communities and parents can do to help curb these rates, very little information ...
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Sex hormones impact career choices
(Medical Xpress) -- Teacher, pilot, nurse or engineer? Sex hormones strongly influence people's interests, which affect the kinds of occupations they choose, according to psychologists.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Wakeup call for college students: New research finds you need to catch more z's
University of Cincinnati research finds that college students could be undermining their own education, simply because they're not practicing proper sleep habits. The study, led by Adam Knowlden, a UC doctoral student in ...
Aug 30, 2011 |
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Race matters when recruiting, retaining undergraduate women engineers
Attempts to recruit and retain more women in undergraduate engineering programs often lump all female students into a single group. At best, minority women as a group may receive special attention.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Stereotypes can affect how women angels' invest, according to new study
Stereotypes about gender affect investment decision-making, even among successful women, researchers concluded in a new study on how gender affects investing strategies.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 14, 2011 |
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White adolescent girls may be losing sleep from the pressure to be thin
Sleep duration has a significant association with feelings of external pressure to obtain or maintain a thin body among adolescent girls, especially those who are white, suggests a research abstract that will be presented ...
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Girls less likely to be violent when seeking others' approval
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many teen girls who push, slap or punch their dates know the situation could become more violent, but they think most consequences are unlikely, a new study shows.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 13, 2011 |
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Weight matters: 'Normal' sized girls are judged to be more attractive by young men
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that despite the size zero trend, boys really do prefer 'normal' girls of an average weight and build.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 27, 2009 |
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When it comes to drinking, college men not looking for a 'girl gone wild'
College women may be drinking to excess to impress their male counterparts on campuses across the country, but a new study suggests most college men are not looking for a woman to match them drink for drink.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Gender bias found in student ratings of high school science teachers
A study of 18,000 biology, chemistry and physics students has uncovered notable gender bias in student ratings of high school science teachers.
Feb 02, 2009 |
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