WashU researchers study dynamics of grandparent/grandchild conversations

A new study published in the journal Environmental Epidemiology found that intersecting levels of race/ethnicity, education, and neighborhood social economic status (NSES) accounted for more disparities in residential exposure to greenspace than each of these factors individually.

Social media use and exposure to influencers is driving an increase of disordered eating among B.C. teens, warns a recently published study from Simon Fraser University.

A recent study found one in four teens in British Columbia reported disordered eating or significant anxiety about eating and body image; rates were even higher among transgender and sexual minority teens. These overall risks were associated with social media use and exposure to influencer-driven misinformation, researchers say.

Early online research published in journals of the American Meteorological Society highlights topics including a change in airflow over the Antarctic Peninsula, rural heat, hot and dry extremes in India, a major upgrade to the UK's Global Seasonal forecasting system (GloSea6), and an unusual trigger of volcanic rain.

Feelings of guilt and shame can lead us to behave in a variety of different ways, including trying to make amends or save face, cooperating more with others or avoiding people altogether. Now, researchers have shed light on how the two emotions emerge from cognitive processes and in turn guide how we respond to them.

At the end of the 20^th century and the beginning of the 21^st, write the authors of a new article from Polity, neoliberalism was “consolidated as the only legitimate form of doing politics.” But in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and with the entrenchment of far-right governments across the world, neoliberalism’s dominance was threatened by the rise of populism. And while some analyses of populism present the phenomenon as a continuation of neoliberalism, Asaf Yakir and Doron Navot argue that it in fact represents a rupture with the neoliberal order. In “Right Wing Populist Re-Politicization and the ‘Hollowing Out’ of the Neoliberal State,” Yakir and Navot use Viktor Orbán’s Hungary and Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel as case studies to demonstrate neoliberalism’s vulnerability to populist rule.