War potentially creates a 'boys' club' where men help each other more than they help women, according to new research carried out at the University of St Andrews.
A team of researchers at the University of St Andrews and the...
Parents often put their own relationship on the back burner to concentrate on their children, but a new study shows that when spouses love each other, children stay in school longer and marry later in life.
Research about how the...
Australia is enduring a horror bushfire season, made worse by a severe drought in the eastern states, and many Australians are lamenting the cruel and fickle hand of nature.
A year ago, almost to the day, a disaster of another...
Students' high school grade point averages are five times stronger than their ACT scores at predicting college graduation, according to a new study published today in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.
The authors of the...
A group of the world's top climate change biologists, including Professor Pete Smith from the University of Aberdeen, have published an editorial highlighting how global movements of civil disobedience focused on climate change are playing an important role in...
A new study, published in Royal Society Open Science, sheds light on the origins and evolution of European sign languages. Using phylogenetic network methods to compare dozens of sign languages, the scholars identify five main European sign language lineages that...
People perceive a person's competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person's clothing, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour by Princeton University. These judgments are made in a matter of milliseconds, and are very hard...
Along with partisan news outlets and political blogs, there's another surprising source of misinformation on controversial topics—it's you.
A new study found that people given accurate statistics on a controversial issue tended to misremember those numbers to fit commonly held...
Our ability to recognize faces is a complex interplay of neurobiology, environment and contextual cues.
Now a study from Harvard Medical School suggests that country-to-country variations in sociocultural dynamics—notably the degree of gender equality—can yield marked differences in men's and women's ability...
The research, published in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, analysed data from Australia's Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children to better understand the link between the health and social wellbeing of Indigenous people and their connection to traditional cultures...
Husbands are least stressed when their wives earn up to 40% of household income but they become increasingly uncomfortable as their spouse's wages rise beyond that point and are most stressed when they are entirely economically dependent on their...
