Swedish researchers who studied BMI figures for more than a thousand children over two decades discovered that obesity levels had risen significantly among…

But the fear experienced by staff may be greater than the actual risk and frequently results in aggressive patients being put in seclusion or restrained,…

Earlier research has demonstrated that people are willing to incur costs to punish and reward others, especially in scenarios where every player's contribution…

Their findings, which provide new insight into neural mechanisms by which visual perception can be altered by concurrent auditory events, will be published…

The study by Mardi Kidwell, assistant professor of communication, “’Calm Down!’: the role of gaze in the interactional management of hysteria by the police,”…

“The role of these health professionals in educating the population regarding the health consequences of drinking and of drinking and driving has been long…

Research conducted by the group of Marikki Laiho, M.D., Ph.D., a Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in collaboration with Donna Peehl, Ph.D., an…

Email in the workplace: it is not very many years since email first appeared and became a major method of communication in our working lives.We are now so…

The difference between the two groups — those eating at a table where leftover bones accumulated compared with those whose leftovers were removed — was…

In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of…

Commenting on the release of a major new study from Oxford Research Group (ORG), the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said: “This incisive study is radical in the…

Chao-Cheng Lin of the National Taiwan University Hospital, Yu-Chuan Li of the National Yang-Ming University, and other colleagues in Taiwan developed the…

The findings revealed today show that crooks target certain stores and use remarkably similar methods in order to shoplift.Report author Professor Martin Gill,…

In the past, such movements were usually triggered by the local conditions which their continued existence is affected by activities such as aggregation in…

The European Consortium for Sociological Research promotes sociological research in Europe by encouraging cooperation between research centres. Membership is…

Marketers know about this impulse, and a lot of marketing makes use of social norms. This is especially true of campaigns targeting some kind of public good:…