New mothers who read and write blogs may feel less alone than mothers who do not participate in a blogging community, according to family studies researchers.
Jun 202012
Communication
Stories about how we get our ideas across and how we are perceived.
Jun 192012
An examination of past Olympic Games television coverage shows notable differences in the way sports commentators talk about athletes, depending upon the athletes’ races, gender and nationalities.
Two studies by University of Delaware professor James Angelini published this month in academic journals show particular biases. The first details differences in coverage of male and female athletes.
Teen sexting: what’s going on?
Teen sexting: what’s going on?
Childhood, Communication, News, Sensuality and Sexuality
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Jun 142012
Nearly 20 percent of the students, some as young as 14, said they had sent a sexually explicit image of themselves via cell phone, and nearly twice as many said that they had received a sexually explicit picture. Of those receiving such a picture, over 25 percent indicated that they had forwarded it to others.
Jun 132012
Personalized email advertisements are far more likely to repel customers than to endear them, according to a study led by a Temple University
Jun 102012
Do rebelliousness, emotional control, toughness and thrill-seeking still make up the essence of coolness? Can performers James Dean and Miles Davis still be considered the models of cool? Maybe not, these days.
Jun 102012
Across many studies, research has shown that deliberate suggestion can influence how people perform on learning and memory tasks, which products they prefer, and how they respond to supplements and medicines, which accounts for the well-known placebo effect. But what can explain the powerful and pervasive effect that suggestion has in our lives?
Jun 062012
A recent study from the University of Georgia looked at sexual ads appearing in magazines over 30 years and found that the numbers are up.
Jun 042012
Social contact between men and women can show up in face flushing, even when there’s no sexual component, study shows
Jun 012012
Words with a positive emotional content are more frequently used in written communication say scientists at ETH Zurich. This result supports the theory that social relations are enhanced by a positive bias in human communication.
May 292012
A new study in Psychological Science suggests that advertisements can be more effective when they are tailored to the unique personality profiles of potential consumers.
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