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Social Sciences Apr 22, 2024

Danish children encounter four typical family learning environments

Do children have regular bedtimes and do parents enforce strict screen time policies? And do parents take their children to museums so that they can learn from an early age? Or is everyday life more about having fun together, ...

Social Sciences Mar 25, 2024

Your brain can reveal if you're right wing—plus three other things it tells us about your politics

A few years ago, the leader of Mexico's PRI party told the New York Times that he, "would stick to tried and trusted campaign tools, like polls and political intuition," and rely on "the old-fashioned way" to win the country's ...

Social Sciences Feb 2, 2024

Professor debunks sex and relationship pop psychology, offers alternatives backed with science

From the Five Love Languages to the concept of "Happy Wife, Happy Life," popular culture is riddled with ideas of how sex and relationships are supposed to work, but does the science back these ideas up? According to Faculty ...

Social Sciences Jun 27, 2023

To learn how Gen Z consumes media, researchers went right to the source

For Gen Z, social media is viewed as both a mood and energy regulator. Their cellphone scrolling habits provide entertainment and escape and the idea of prioritizing a specific time slot for audience tune-in is becoming irrelevant.

Social Sciences Jan 17, 2023

Separation leads to significant but temporary gender differences in parent-child time

Separation leads to a significant but temporary increase in gender inequalities in parent-child time, according to new research from sociologists in Trinity College Dublin and UNED Madrid, Spain.

Education Nov 15, 2022

Emergent bilinguals lost vital instruction during remote learning, study shows

Emergent bilingual learners—students developing proficiency in English and another language—in kindergarten through second grade saw significant loss of language-rich instruction during remote learning caused by the COVID-19 ...

Social Sciences Oct 11, 2022

The magic of touch: How deafblind people taught us to 'see' the world differently during COVID

"As someone who is severely deaf and completely blind, I felt overnight I had lost a third sense, my sense of touch. To make matters worse, people around me faded away—voices had become so quiet that there was an eerie ...

Social Sciences Aug 12, 2022

Learning how clothes are made has a 'transformative' effect on people's relationship with fast fashion

Knowing more about how clothes were made can have a transformative effect on people's relationship with fast fashion, a new study shows.

Social Sciences Jun 22, 2022

LARPing has more intense effect than other entertainment

In season four of the Netflix series "Stranger Things," an alternate dimension "the Upside Down" bleeds into the real world. Now new research by the University of Sydney and Monash University has found this is a common experience ...

Social Sciences May 30, 2022

How self-publishing, social media and algorithms are aiding far-right novelists

Far-right extremists pose an increasing risk in Australia and around the world. In 2020, ASIO revealed that about 40% of its counter-terrorism work involved the far right.

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