News tagged with social processes
How adolescent girls manage stress
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Greater influence over everyday life, emotional support, and cultural and recreational activities help to enable teenage girls to withstand stress. Those were the results of a dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University ...
Oxytocin: Love potion #1?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Relationships are difficult and most of us probably think at some point that communicating positively with our partner when discussing stressful issues, like home finances, is an impossible task. What if there was a safe ...
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Understanding the cycle of violence
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 24, 2008 |
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Researchers have long known that children who grow up in an aggressive or violent household are more likely to become violent or aggressive in future relationships. What has not been so clear is the developmental link between ...
Study shows 3-month-olds are sensitive to emotional cues referring to objects in the world
Jun 11, 2008 |
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Scientists have discovered that three-month-old infants are sensitive to emotional signals that refer to objects in the world. It was once thought that young infants could only process social signals that were directed at ...
Delinquent acts less likely for youths from religious-centered, two-parent homes
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A committed two-adult household with strong religious values may reduce the likelihood that youths will commit acts such as assault, vandalism and theft throughout adolescence and into early adulthood, says ...
A young brain for an old bee
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Scientists have found that by switching the social role of honey bees, aging honey bees can keep their learning ability intact or even improve it. The research team is hoping to use them as a model to study ...
Is that song sexy or just so-so?
Sep 22, 2008 |
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Why is your mate's rendition of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On" cute and sexy sometimes and so annoying at other times? A songbird study conducted by Emory University sheds new light on this question, showing that a change ...
Two brain structures key to emotional balance especially in threatening situations
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Researchers have discovered that a primitive region of the brain responsible for sensorimotor control also has an important role in regulating emotional responses to threatening situations. This region appears to work in ...
Social class, gender and ethnic group determine adolescents' sexual-affective education
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 24, 2009 |
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The social class, the gender and the ethnic group are three essential dimensions, not only in the social differentiation, but also in the affective sexual education of the adolescents, where it is necessary to take part in ...
Surprising results: Virtual games players stick close to home
Feb 14, 2009 |
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In the real world, tracking a person's social network -- which could include hundreds of contacts that serve different purposes -- is nearly impossible.
New study shows that in horse play, adult-to-young ratio is key
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Adults of many animal species play a crucial role in the social development of youngsters. A new study published March 18 in the online, peer-reviewed, open-access journal PLoS ONE, reveals that the ratio of adults to you ...
More competitors, less competition
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Americans love competition, but the more challengers involved, the less likely we are to compete, says a University of Michigan professor.
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