Can Exercise Close the Achievement Gap?
Just 12 minutes of aerobic exercise can boost low-income college students’ academic performance. The effect is large enough to close the achievement gap.
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Stress
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Mindfulness Can Avert Bodily Responses to Emotional Stress
New research finds acceptance of moment-to-moment thoughts and feelings can greatly reduce the impact of stress on your health.
Feeling Impulsive? Head for the Forest
New research finds yet another benefit of viewing images of the natural world.
New Insights Into Why Some Men Assault Women
For some, the sense that they are not sufficiently masculine leads to stress, and ultimately to striking out at the women closest to them.
Mindfulness Training Produces Less-Stressed Marines
Marines who took an eight-week course in the basics of mindfulness recovered from stress faster following an intense training session that replicated battlefield conditions.
Stress Increases Empathy in Women, Decreases It in Men
New research from Vienna finds a big gender gap in how we respond to stressful situations.
Texting and the Stressed-Out Freshman
A survey of first-year university students finds a link between heavy texting and poor sleeping.
The Social Life of Genes
Your DNA is not a blueprint. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your surroundings. Your neighbors, your family, your feelings of loneliness: They don't just get under your skin, they get into the control rooms of your cells. Inside the new social science of genetics.
Time Flying By? You’re Getting Old (and Stressed)
New research shows that time seems to move faster as we get older because we're more stressed.