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UNL research aims to understand homelessness among women

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Women make up nearly one-third of the homeless population in the United States. Yet little is known about how they become homeless or how they live. University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Les Whitbeck ...


Children who are spanked have lower IQs, new research finds

Children who are spanked have lower IQs, new research finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (42) | comments 70

Children who are spanked have lower IQs worldwide, including in the United States, according to new groundbreaking research by University of New Hampshire professor Murray Straus. The research results will ...


Older Americans: How they are faring in the recession

Other Sciences / Economics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Older Americans have weathered the financial crisis relatively well, although many now expect to work longer than they did just a year ago, according to a University of Michigan study released on Capitol ...


Researchers Skeptical of Claims by Online Dating Sites

Technology / Internet

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 3

With an estimated 40 percent of the 100 million U.S. singles trying online dating, researchers at the University of Arkansas caution users that some Web sites’ claims of scientific justification may be “junk science.”


Study indicates people by nature are universally optimistic

Study indicates people by nature are universally optimistic

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Despite calamities from economic recessions, wars and famine to a flu epidemic afflicting the Earth, a new study from the University of Kansas and Gallup indicates that humans are by nature optimistic.