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The goal of public health is ostensibly primary prevention: this means a focus on anticipating, (rather than treating), disease, disorder, and injury.
Humans around the world have knowledge about many things. Some of it is the kind one might write essays about, or learn about in graduate courses at university.
The situationist idea that personality is an illusion is an arresting one, but it is false.
These sorts of games are designed to maximize fun for a wide age range, and are typically extremely quick to grasp.
Social media isn’t the cause of these crises in our culture; rather, there is a sense that it has betrayed its higher purpose.
Police organizations had better start to pay more attention to the psychological health of these men and women who serve.
To our knowledge, we have yet to see a similar example applied specifically to race.
Reproductive events across a woman’s life are associated with hormonal changes, which have been linked to anxiety.
It has been found to induce anti-tumour immune responses in mice and three human patients with advanced melanoma.
To go from noticing that genetic differences were making a difference to knowing which genetic differences were making a difference, geneticists had to move from the classical twin methods to the modern “molecular” methods.
For some time now, the term stereotype has connoted one aspect of prejudice, and this linkage between stereotyping and prejudice isn’t altogether unfair.
As we have noted before, crime is heritable. And yet, there is no crime gene.
The ability to digest dairy products as adults is likely to be adaptive owing to its increased nutritional benefits (sugars, as well as fat, protein and calcium) and milk’s role as an important drinking source in arid regions.
Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science.
The cultural practices of manufactured outrage, sensationalism and professional offense taking seem to have set us on course for a total cultural burnout.