Social Sciences

Traumatic events from your childhood could have a lingering impact on your adult relationships, according to new research from the University of Georgia.This post was originally published on this site

Social enterprises help communities thrive, but founder well-being is critical to sustaining their impact, UC research finds. Social enterprises create jobs, encourage ethical consumption, and address social and environmental challenges.This post was originally published on […]

As Australia marks 50 years of NAIDOC Week, honoring the world’s oldest living culture, humanity’s newest technology has yet to reckon with a simple principle: “nothing about us, without us.” The concern is that artificial […]

Gentle purchase incentives can lead customers to choose groceries with higher animal husbandry standards more often. A recent study at the University of Bonn at least suggests this. The researchers used two different animal welfare […]

Why do people make the choices they do? Researchers from the Center Synergy of Systems (SynoSys) at TUD Dresden University of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and the University of Basel present […]

Most of us have attended sex ed classes in school. If we’re lucky, we’ll learn about consent and how to roll a condom onto a banana. But the classroom rarely goes into the specifics of […]

New research from the University of Kansas uses network science to determine why people make mistakes when lip-reading. Michael Vitevitch, professor of speech-language-hearing at KU, and his co-authors created a visual map of about 20,000 […]

Domestic and family violence (DFV) rates in the Indo-Pacific are among the highest globally, but there is a lack of focus, both in research and policy, on the issue across the region. In the first […]

Walk into any college library and you will likely see students wearing headphones and listening to music.This post was originally published on this site

The human brain evolved for a world of familiar faces, immediate threats and small social groups. But the world around us is changing far faster than human biology can keep pace. That mismatch may help […]