Roommates can underestimate each other’s stress
College is a time of stress for many, but if your dorm roommate can be more tuned in to your stress levels, maybe she or he can help.
Psychology
In the great outdoors, students learn science better
Outdoor instruction with exploration built in has yielded results that beat learning in a classroom, new research out of Norway suggests.
Happiness is a choice, a top one, students declare
Happiness is, at least, as important as test scores and other accomplishments for schools and students. Here's the proof.
Civic engagement can help teens grow
Civic engagement during the teen years carries over into adulthood, esp. in reaching a higher level of academic completion.
Hopkins depression literacy training helps some teens
A curriculum developed at Johns Hopkins Univ. in Baltimore, supporting kids who speak up about depression, shows some promise.
Male success stereotypes undermine women’s interest
Why are women underrepresented in certain fields, and why do they have less interest in certain careers? Society could be to blame.
Students ask female professors for more favors
Professors get special requests from students a lot, like extra time. Female profs who deny the request are more likely to get complaints.
We expect more of ourselves today, incl. perfection
Meritocracy places a strong need for young people to strive, perform and achieve in modern life; that leads to an increase in perfectionism.
Unlike monkeys, we turn competition into cooperation
Games, like life, don't have to be a zero-sum game, as scientists at Ga. State found by looking at primate behavior in monkeys.
Smartphone addiction linked to chemical imbalance
Being "addicted" to a smartphone or the internet can be linked to a chemical imbalance in the brain, new research suggests.