News tagged with social development


Elementary school intervention increases mental, sexual health, economic status

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Fifteen years after they completed an intervention program designed to help their social development in elementary school, young adults reported better mental health, sexual health and higher educational and economic achievement ...





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Challenging conventional wisdom: Advances in development reverse fertility declines

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Università Bocconi in Milan have released a study that challenges one of the most established and accepted standards in the social sciences: Human fertility ...


Study sheds light on social brain development

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children develop social skills by learning how to understand others' thoughts and feelings, or their theory of mind. A new study of EEGs of 4-year-olds shows that theory of mind changes are related to the functional development ...


Parts of brain involved in social cognition may be in place by age 6

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

the ability to think about the minds and mental states of others—is essential for human beings. In the last decade, a group of regions has been discovered in the human brain that are specifically used for social cognition. ...


Facebook to keep profiles of the dead

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Death doesn't erase the online footprints that people leave in life and Facebook won't either, though it will make some changes.


Study: Race, class and gender shape religion's effect on American voters

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socio-economic class and gender, reports a new Cornell study.


Exploring reactions to inequality

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When primates don’t get the same rewards as their peers, they often refuse them. A Georgia State University researcher is exploring why this reaction happens, and how reactions to inequality have evolved in related species, ...


MIT wins Pentagon prize in social networking contest

MIT wins Pentagon prize in social networking contest

Technology / Other

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won a 40,000-dollar prize for using social networking tools to identify the locations of 10 large weather balloons in a contest sponsored by ...


Attention-deficit/hyperactivity problems associated with low folate levels in pregnant women

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It has long been suggested that healthy folate (the natural form of folic acid) levels in expectant mothers goes hand in hand with healthy nervous system development in their children. A study published in an upcoming issue ...


In cancer-ridden rats, loneliness can kill

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Socially isolated female rats develop more tumors -- and tumors of a more deadly type -- than rats living in a social group, according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago.


Longitudinal study investigates cocaine's impact on adolescent development

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Teen years are filled with experimenting. Sometimes that means trying some risky behaviors.



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