Social Sciences

Is your phone use hurting your relationship? A study from researchers at the University of Connecticut and Columbia University published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships suggests it might be.This post was originally […]

The spread of a particular genre of music reflects the borders between medieval empires in Europe. This is shown by a study conducted by a musicologist at the University of Würzburg, appearing in Transactions of […]

Companies increasingly want to talk about sustainability, but not everyone believes equally in their commitments. The focus of corporate communication has shifted towards sustainability in response to increasingly serious environmental issues, international campaigns such as […]

To understand how professional networks contribute to persistent gender disparities in corporate leadership, researchers analyzed data from more than 19,000 corporate employees over 20 years. Published in Patterns, their results show that educational, employment, and […]

It might date back to the ancient Greeks, but the concept of “everything in moderation” still holds true for today’s users of goal-setting apps. In a paper in the Journal of Marketing Research, a team […]

Gender differences in poverty rates in the United States may be associated with women’s differing circumstances—particularly the burden of dependent children—rather than inherent to gender itself, according to a study published in PLOS One by […]

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Ursula Hess from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and colleagues.This […]

Going vegan is a life-changing decision. Successfully committing to eating only ethically sourced, non-exploitative products—no dairy, no honey, no eggs, no animal output of any kind—can be daunting, especially in a society where most people […]

When considering the challenges faced by children with developmental language disorder (DLD), it’s natural to think of difficulties they have in understanding and using language. What tends to get overlooked, however, is how the disorder […]

When the first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. emerged in January 2020, many Americans began to confront the reality of death. Six years later, researchers at the University of Florida and Hanyang University in […]