U-M’s Toni Antonucci to receive Distinguished Career Award
September 6, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—University of Michigan psychologist Toni Antonucci will receive the 2012 Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award from The Gerontological Society of America, the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging.Antonucci is the...
Panapasa highlights need to understand health disparities of Pacific Island population in US
August 28, 2012
The [Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Disparity and Health Equity Conference](http://healthcarecommunities.org/showcontent.aspx?id=4294975376) in Los Angeles, Sept. 24-25, 2012, will feature preliminary findings from the Pacific Islander Health Study, the first representative survey to...
Chain of violence: Study shows impact on Palestinian and Israeli children
August 21, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Children exposed to ethnic and political violence in the Middle East are more aggressive than other children, a new study shows. And the younger children are, the more strongly they are affected, in a “chain of violence” that goes from political and...
Antonucci receives career contribution award from Gerontological Society of America
August 16, 2012
The GSA has given Toni Antonucci its 2011 Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award, in recognition of her novel theoretical and research contributions in the area of aging. She will receive the award at GSA’s 65th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego, November 14-18, 2012.
Study shows that religious patriarchy promotes confidence about paternity
June 5, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Religious practices that strongly control female sexuality are more successful at promoting certainty about paternity, according to a study published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)
It’s all in a name: ‘Global warming’ versus ‘Climate change’
March 31, 2011
More people believe in “climate change” than in “global warming,” according to a University of Michigan study published in Public Opinion Quarterly. “Wording matters,” says Jonathon Schuldt, a Ph.D. candidate in the U-M Department of Psychology who co-authored...
Study illuminates the ‘pain’ of social rejection
March 25, 2011
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Physical pain and intense feelings of social rejection “hurt” in the same way, a new study shows.The study demonstrates that the same regions of the brain that become active in response to painful sensory experiences are activated during intense experiences of...