News tagged with male students

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?

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Kids more accepting of peers who try to change undesirable trait than those faulted for it

A psychology team at Kansas State University is studying how elementary and middle school youths perceive and anticipate interacting with peers who have various characteristics seen as undesirable, such as being a poor student ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Children experience wrist and finger pain when using gaming devices and mobile phones over time

For the first time, results on the impact of gaming devices on finger and wrist pain in children were presented today at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. Data comparing two schools in the USA demonstrate that young children ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Big racial gap in suspensions of middle school students, study shows

A new study by education researchers Daniel J. Losen (Civil Rights Project at UCLA) and Russell Skiba (Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University) says Middle schools across the country are suspending ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0