News tagged with social processes

New research finds sport is effective in reducing reoffending rates

A new research project into the role of sport in rehabilitating young prisoners has found that sport can be effective in reducing the reconviction rate of offenders.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Denying mental qualities to animals in order to eat them

(Medical Xpress) -- New research by Dr Brock Bastian from UQ's School of Psychology highlights the psychological processes that people engage in to reduce their discomfort over eating meat.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 32

Study examines how couples' collaborative dialogue may assist in memory

(Medical Xpress) -- Effective memory is a key ability for independent living in later life, and a new Iowa State University study is among the first to report that social partners can help extend memory. The study also found ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find a 'liberal gene'

Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (27) | comments 574 | with audio podcast

The importance of workplace relationships post-retirement

The influence of traditional social structures such as neighbourhoods and local organisations has declined. The workplace has become the "new neighbourhood" and has become increasingly important for maintaining social interaction ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Language as a window into sociability

People with Williams syndrome-known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers-process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders-characterized by social withdrawal ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Nexi robot: A matter of trust

(PhysOrg.com) -- What can a wide-eyed, talking robot teach us about trust? A lot, according to Northeastern psychology professor David DeSteno, and his colleagues, who are conducting innovative research to ...

Technology / Other

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain

A new genetic tool will enable scientists to study vocal learning and neurogenesis at the molecular level in songbirds.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Autism study finds visual processing 'hinders ability' to read body language

The way people with autism see and process the body language of others could be preventing them from gauging people's feelings, according to new research.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Intel boosts Facebook users power for research

Intel unveiled a software program that lets Facebook users devote spare computer processing power to researching diseases or climate change.

Technology / Software

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

How adolescent girls manage stress

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oxytocin: Love potion #1?

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0