Google it. That's what many college students do when asked to read an excerpt of a play for class, write a resume or find the e-mail address of a politician.They trust Google so much that a Northwestern University study has found many students only click on websites that turn up at the top of Google searches to complete assigned tasks. If they don't use Google, researchers found that students trust other brand-name search engines and brand-name websites to lead them to information….
A Mount Sinai School of Medicine study has found that patients often exhibit a significant decrease in weight and body mass index (BMI) after undergoing knee…
“Our findings suggest that there may be limitations to the remarkable flexibility for language functions displayed by children with brain injuries,” said Özlem…
Psychologists have known for a while that context is important to remembering. If you leave the place where a memory was made – its context – it will be harder…
In the spring, later sunset and extended daylight exposure delay bedtimes in teenagers, according to researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting…
“Some evaluators see conflict as a natural part of relationships. When domestic violence occurs, they reason that it takes two to tango. When a couple's…
While the effect of negative performance stereotypes on test-taking and in other domains is well documented, the study by social psychologist Robert J. Rydell…
Authors of the first international comparative study of its kind, analyzed levels of affection and conflict among more than 2,600 parents and children in six…
A climate-change study at Sandia National Laboratories that models the near-term effects of declining rainfall in each of the 48 U.S. continental states makes…
As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education seeks to improve patient care by further limiting the hours worked by medical residents, the…
Examining the brains of 872 people who had been part of three large ageing studies, and who before their deaths had completed questionnaires about their…
The paper does not address instances in which infants are born with conditions that pose an imminent threat to their health — such as when children are born…
Intensive blood sugar control reduced the progression of diabetic retinopathy compared with standard blood sugar control, and combination lipid therapy with a…
“CO2 restriction policies in Spain have an impact on the economy, in other words, making it lean more towards an economy of services. The weight of the…
Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researchers found that the GRB7 gene drives an aggressive form of breast cancer and acts…
Still, more can be done to even further reduce the number of babies born with the disease, say pediatric HIV experts at the University of Florida who this week…
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