People Misjudge the Strength of Other People’s Emotions Based on Egocentric Bias, Study Says

POLICY 07.05.2019 08:46 AM

According to a new study, people of all ages tend to misjudge the strength of other people's feelings based on an egocentric bias. The results of this research made by Associate Professor Hajimu Hayashi, Kobe University Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, was published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Japan Resumes Whale Hunting After 31-Year Ban

07.05.2019 08:19 AM

Whaling has been a Japanese tradition for centuries and was particularly important post-World War II to feed the country's poor. Now, the government wants to revive the whaling industry despite growing disinterest in whale meat among Japanese.

Grandparents Medicines Not Secure Enough around Grandchildren, According to a Poll

07.03.2019 08:53 AM

Grandparents must not leave medications in their purse or on a kitchen counter as it is best to keep them locked up

Research Team Discovers Maximum Weight Children Must Carry in School Backpacks

07.03.2019 08:51 AM

Schoolchildren who use backpacks should avoid carrying loads greater than 10 percent of their body weight

Friends, Not Fitbit, More Predictive of Health, Says Studies

06.28.2019 10:29 AM

What the researchers discovered was the social network structure provides a significant improvement in predictability of wellness states of an individual over using the data derived from wearables, like the number of steps or heart rate

Single Vermont Bill Prohibits Usage of Four Major Single-Use Plastic Waste Sources

06.28.2019 10:28 AM

Vermont has joined the environmental effort with restrictions on using shopping bags, drinks tears, straws, and for him for food packaging has been implemented.

Pornography Consumption Increase Unethical Behavior at Work

06.25.2019 23:41 PM

Consumption of pornography heightens the propensity of the viewer to view others as objects or less than human

Atlanta’s 7-Acre Free Food Forest

06.21.2019 09:34 AM

Eighty-five percent of the city’s residents will be within one-half mile of fresh food by 2021. Atlanta has a large expanse of land, over seven acres, in fact, that wasn't being used.

India Will Be the World’s Most Populated Nation by 2027, Says UN Report

06.20.2019 11:16 AM

India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country in less than a decade, according to a new United Nations report.

China Sees US Marijuana Legalization as a Threat

06.18.2019 17:32 PM

China severely punishes those caught smuggling or trafficking drugs, including foreigners. Beijing's leading drug enforcement body has blamed the legalization of marijuana in Canada and parts of the United States for a spike in the amount of drugs smuggled into the country, describing it as a "new threat to China.

Cartoon-Based Ads for e-Cigarette May Increase Likelihood of Vaping, Study Says

06.14.2019 14:53 PM

Cartoon imagery used by some companies is part of the constellation of variables that make people susceptible to future use of e-cigarettes

Researchers Utilize Facebook to Reach Larger, More Diverse Groups of People

06.14.2019 09:11 AM

When researchers compared results from their Genes for Good analyses to those from well-cited papers, they mostly matched

Evolutionary Discovery Sets to Rewrite Textbooks

06.12.2019 17:02 PM

Multi-celled animals evolved from a single-celled ancestor resembling a modern sponge cell known as a choanocyte

New Study Recommends Regulation on Low-Priced Alcopops that Pose High Risk Especially for Youth

06.12.2019 16:54 PM

Regulatory agencies should reduce the availability and alcohol-by-volume of these products and increase their retail price to reduce and prevent unsafe alcohol consumption

One in Five UK Children Affected By Persistent Poverty

06.12.2019 11:26 AM

Persistent poverty has a connection with poorer mental, social, and behavioral development in children, as well as worse educational outcomes, employment prospects, and earning power into adulthood