Society

Contrary to popular belief, simply playing organized youth sports does not reduce the likelihood of committing violence in one’s lifetime and, in some cases, may increase it, according to a new study.This article is brought […]

Research by Penn sociologist Pilar Gonalons-Pons and others has shown that after a man and a woman have a child, the couple’s relative share of paid and unpaid labor tends to change dramatically, with the […]

Loneliness among young adults has reached what the U.S. surgeon general has called an “epidemic,” with recent estimates suggesting that roughly half of U.S. adults report feeling lonely, and rates are particularly high among people […]

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, around 63,300 Australians age 16 and older—0.3% of the overall population—know they were born with variations of sex characteristics. This means their bodies don’t fit medical norms about […]

As young adults, many millennials feared growing up more than past generations. But they’ve come around to it as they age, research published in the journal Developmental Psychology has found.This article is brought to you […]

Australia’s social media ban for under-16s has had little impact on teenagers’ scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the first evaluations of the world-leading measures.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

The myth of the sexually liberated life of communes is persistent, even though research shows a different reality. According to postdoctoral researcher Anna Heinonen of the University of Eastern Finland, the idea that roommates would […]

A research group led by Associate Professor Yoshihiro Nakata from the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering at the University of Electro-Communications, Japan, in collaboration with researchers from Doshisha University and Otemon Gakuin University, has […]

Puerto Rican icon Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, has recently risen to global prominence, as demonstrated by the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Over five decades, popular songs in the U.S. and Germany have become more self-focused—as indicated by the use of pronouns such as “I,” “me” and “mine”—while no such trend was seen for the most popular […]