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Resolved to quit smoking? Brain scans reveal likely success
Brain scans showing neural reactions to pro-health messages can predict if you’ll keep that resolution to quit smoking more accurately than you yourself can. That’s according to a study published...
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Monitoring the Future Study identifies 2010 teen drug use and smoking trends
Marijuana use is rising, ecstasy use is beginning to rise, and alcohol use is declining among U.S. teens, according to the 2010 Monitoring the Future Study of a nationally representative sample of...
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Rona Carter: 2010 Libby Douvan Junior Scholar in Life Course Development
To help put herself through Florida International University while earning her undergraduate degree in psychology, Rona Carter took a job at the Miami-based PACE Center for Girls, a non-profit school...
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Persuasive speech: The way we, um, talk sways our listeners
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Want to convince someone to do something? A new University of Michigan study has some intriguing insights drawn from how we speak. The study, presented May 14 at the annual meeting of...
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Cultivating Wisdom: U-M studies identify a promising way
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Adopting a psychologically distanced perspective enhances wisdom, according to a University of Michigan study just published online in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General....
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