The study of Tatsuya Sasaki suggests that the practice of avoiding moral assessments can be the best policy when assessing those who refuse to help wrongdoers. Copyright: University of Vienna/Barbara Mair
A research team led by mathematician Tatsuya Sasaki...
People who are battling obesity face being stereotyped as lazy, incompetent, unattractive, lacking willpower, and to blame for their excess weight. The pain of these messages may take a toll on health and increase risk of cardiovascular and...
African Americans surveyed had a higher degree of skepticism of the flu vaccine and the process of creating the vaccine, which was related to their experience of racial bias and an awareness about racial disparities in the healthcare setting.Credit:...
An MIT-led study finds that technological advances alone will not bring about dematerialization, or the reduction of the amount of materials needed to produce goods and services.Image: MIT News
Researchers find no evidence of an overall reduction in the world’s...
This horse mandible from Cave 2 shows a number of cut marks on the lingual surface. They show the animal’s tongue was cut out with a stone tool. Credit: University of Montreal
The timing of the first entry of humans...
Escalating rungs of social support.Credit: Penn Medicine
Leveraging existing relationships with friends and family may be a more effective way to improve patients' health and encourage new healthy habits and behaviors than increasing interactions with physicians or other clinicians. In...
A lay health worker or community 'Grandmother' conducting a problem solving therapy session with a patient on the Friendship Bench.Image Credit: Grand Challenges Canada / ZAPP
In Zimbabwe study, Friendship Bench therapy reduces prevalence of depression to <14%, compared to...
Participants rated the strength of their beliefs on a scale of 1-7 on both political (purple) and nonpolitical (green) statements. They then rated responses to counter-arguments to those statements. The graph depicts shifts in their belief strength ratings. Credit:...
A new study shows that poor kids grow up to have a host of physical problems as adults. Image credit: Flickr/John Christian Fjellestad
A large and growing body of research shows that poor kids grow up to have a host...
Australians who leave school without a school certificate are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack as those with a university degree. Image Credit: Flickr/Sharon Sinclair
People who leave school without a school certificate are more than...
Teenagers' use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco declined significantly in 2016, say investigators.Image Credit: Flickr/tristanforestjames
Teenagers' use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco declined significantly in 2016 at rates that are at their lowest since the 1990s, a new national study...
