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Taiwanese teenagers – and especially females – who become sexually active at a very young age are more likely to be rule-breakers and be more aggressive than their peers. These are the findings of a national study of Taiwanese youth led by Wei J. Chen …

Humans might be using facial expressions of determination as a call for help from others, according to new research.When children and chimpanzees were both given a task that was impossible to solve, children’s faces expressed determination or frustrati…

Defensive mechanisms protect patients from fully engaging with bad news say healthcare professionals from the University of Leicester.

The young, it turns out, smoke more than any other age group in America. Unfortunately, the period of life ranging from late adolescence to early adulthood is also a time when the brain is still developing.Now, a small study from UCLA suggests a distur…

I had a friend in college who claimed to have extremely good “gaydar.” She insisted that, generally speaking, lesbians (of which she was one) tended to be better at picking out other lesbians from a crowd and that I, despite my own experimental tendenc…

Facebook has become a global phenomenon and an active space for social comparison. With the increase in technology use, there is a positive correlation with decreased body image in young women.

Two strains of rats, cans of vanilla frosting and a theory have helped MSU professor of psychology Kelly Klump take one step closer to finding the genetic causes, and eventually a treatment, for binge eating.In her latest research, Klump decided to use…

Fathers who returned after military service report having difficulty connecting with young children who sometimes don’t remember them, according to a study released this week.

On the other side of the cocaine high is the cocaine crash, and understanding how one follows the other can provide insight into the physiological effects of drug abuse. For decades, brain research has focused on the pleasurable effects of cocaine larg…

It may seem normal: As we age, we misplace car keys, or can’t remember a name we just learned or a meal we just ordered. But researchers say memory trouble doesn’t have to be inevitable, and they’ve found a drug therapy that could potentially reverse t…