After The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a poll of more than 1,000 current and recent college students from around the country, a team of Post reporters interviewed more than 50 people who responded that they had, at some point during their time in college, experienced unwanted sexual contact.
Category: behavior
Mixed Signals: Why People Misunderstand Each Other
The psychological quirks that make it tricky to get an accurate read on someone’s emotions
Study finds fidgeting helps ADHD students learn
Against popular belief, new research by the University of Central Florida shows that children with ADHD learn better when left to wiggle and tap.
Mind your language! Swearing around the world
Strong language is common to most cultures, but what makes a word profane, and how does cursing vary from place to place? James Harbeck explains.
How To Get Bicyclists To Obey Traffic Signals
After installing micro radar sensors in the pavement to monitor the behavior of bicyclists, Chicago has figured out how to make them obey traffic signals: give them their own.
How Exercise Can Help Us Learn
Is it better to exercise before you learn something new? What about during? And should the exercise be vigorous or gentle? Two new studies helpfully tackle those questions.
Internet trolls: What to do about the scourge of the Web?
Curtis Woodhouse earns a living punching people in the face, so it’s fair to say he’s one of the last men you’d hurl insults at if you saw him on the street.
But people tend to be a bit braver once they don the anonymity cloak the internet provides, and the 32 year-old English boxing champ faced a flurry of ugly abuse from trolls online after he lost his most recent bout in March.
Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Happiness, New Study Finds
Facebook helps people feel connected, but it doesn’t necessarily make them happier, a new study shows. Facebook use actually predicts declines in a user’s well-being, according to a University of Michigan study that is the first known published research examining Facebook influence on happiness and satisfaction.
Why do girls check out other girls?
Admit it, many straight women spend more time checking each other out than they do the opposite sex. Julia Oliphant asks why we’re so obsessed with analysing what she wears, how she dances, what she eats … (the list could go on).
Study Challenges Popular Perception of New ‘Hookup Culture’ On College Campuses
A University of Portland study challenges the popular perception that there is a “new and pervasive hookup culture” among contemporary college students.