Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences
February 21, 2012
Art, like bones of ancient hominids, provides clues to the past—particularly cultural life. From this artwork, certain roles for women—wives, mothers, mourners, midwives and even sex goddesses—emerge from the images sculpted from stone, engraved on wood or molded out of various earthen and metal…
January 30, 2012
People with mental illness have gotten a bad rap in past research studies, being labeled the group of people with the highest return rates to prison. But a researcher from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at ӰƵ counters those findings in a new…
January 09, 2012
Bingo, a popular activity in nursing homes, senior centers and assisted-living facilities, has benefits that extend well beyond socializing. Researchers found high-contrast, large bingo cards boost thinking and playing skills for people with cognitive difficulties and visual perception problems…
May 27, 2011
How useful would it be to anticipate how well someone will control their emotions? To predict how well they might be able to stay calm during stress? To accept critical feedback stoically? Heath A. Demaree, professor of psychology at ӰƵ, finds clues in what…