The study helps explain why personality has such a strong influence on a person's happiness. The findings suggest that persons with certain personality traits…
The public favors equal custody for children of divorce, according to findings in a pair of studies by Arizona State University researchers that will appear in…
Road warriors who travel for business two weeks or more a month have higher body mass index, higher rates of obesity and poorer self-rated health than those…
Multitaskers who think they can successfully divide their attention between the program on their television set and the information on their computer screen…
Trying to figure out what's going on inside the mind of an adolescent can be challenging, to say the least. A new study shows that simply asking them what they…
After the USPSTF delivered their recommendations in November 2009, researchers at the University of Colorado saw a significant drop in mammograms in women in…
Most psychology research is done by asking a big group of people the same questions at the same time. “So we might get a bunch of Psych 101 undergrads,…
The study also shows that in most cases the rupture heals on its own and surgery is only necessary for the most severe cases.”In the past, many…
Only 36 percent of parents and caregivers indicated they would immunize children against H1N1, and 22 percent indicated their children received the seasonal…
The report, from the Comparison of AMD Treatments Trials (CATT), was published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine. CATT is funded by the…
“Kids need parents to be parents and not drinking buddies,” according to the study's lead researcher, Barbara J. McMorris, Ph.D., of the School of Nursing at…
A new study reports that the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for U.S. adults with arthritis is much worse than for those without this condition. Both…
This multicenter randomized trial is planned to enroll 280 patients. In the first phase of the study, eight study centers will participate in Germany and…
“There is a tendency among environmentalists and scientists to blame political inaction on the spending advantage enjoyed by conservatives and on false balance…
Ninety percent of American families living above the federal poverty level will be able to afford health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to…
The paper finds that people are willing to trade one source of control for the other. For example, if people lack power, they clamor for choice, and if they…