Society

Young men growing up around parents who are physically violent to each other are 43% more likely to carry out violence or abuse in their own relationships, new research by the University of Bristol has […]

Temporarily deactivating Facebook or Instagram can improve emotional well-being, according to the largest experimental study on the effects of social media abstention conducted in partnership with Meta.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

An Asian American and lifelong liberal from the San Francisco Bay Area, I became a first-time gun owner as a 42-year-old in 2011. I began a now 14-year journey into an unfamiliar and complex world […]

What does it mean to live a good life? For centuries, philosophers, scientists and people of different cultures have tried to answer this question. Each tradition has a different take, but all agree: The good […]

Research from a University of Nottingham sociologist has revealed that “homosecular” assumptions can influence and shape the credibility of asylum-claim assessments for LGBTIQ+ claimants who identify with a religious faith.This article is brought to you […]

Many people around the world believe in karma—that idea that divine justice will punish people who do bad deeds and reward those who do good. But that belief plays out differently for oneself versus others, […]

Human populations need at least 2.7 children per woman—a much higher fertility rate than previously believed—to reliably avoid long-term extinction, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Takuya Okabe […]

Nearly 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. lack access to reliable transportation, making it one of the country’s most common forms of material hardship, say University of Michigan researchers.This article is brought to you […]

As Americans become more polarized, even family dinners can feel fraught, surfacing differences that could spark out-and-out conflict. Tense conversations often end with a familiar refrain: “Let’s just drop it.”This article is brought to you […]

Indiana University researchers have taken an interdisciplinary approach to studying social media impacts on mental health, discovering an intervention that could help curb the U.S. depression epidemic, according to a new study.This article is brought […]