Adolescents use social media to post about self-injury
As the debate over social media’s oversized influence on children rages, new research from the University of Georgia suggests another
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Social inequities perpetuate breastfeeding disparities for Black women
As Black women continue to have the lowest breastfeeding initiation and duration rates in the United States, researchers examined factors
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What are the Health Effects of Loneliness?
Loneliness is a subjective feeling associated with a lack of social interactions in combination with several internal factors relating to
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Study finds that social groups, status play large role in health controversies
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the way people make decisions about their health and the influence that
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Belief in social Darwinism linked to dysfunctional psychological characteristics
A new survey study links belief in the concept of social Darwinism with certain dysfunctional psychological characteristics, such as exploitative
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An international team of multiple sclerosis (MS) researchers showed that longitudinal changes in social cognition are associated with psychological outcomes
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New tool to more accurately measure young people’s ability to disengage from social media
Sleep experts have developed a new tool to help more accurately measure young people’s ability to disengage from social media
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The brain’s emotion-processing center—the amygdala—is one of several brain regions involved in social behavior. But the exact role that this
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Considering the greater good by social distancing during a pandemic turns out to have an attractive personal benefit: A new
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Study examines social determinants of disparities in kidney transplantation
Among US adults with kidney failure, race and social determinants of health were associated with patients’ likelihood of receiving a
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