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The biggest hit for the video game world in the last few years has been the Call of Duty franchise, which focuses on military engagements and high-action sequences, and at least one leading developer believes that this focus on young adult fantasies actually hurts gaming as a whole.
Jenova Chen, one of the co-founde... |
21 May 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Adults apparently have different degrees of credibility in the eyes of infants, scientists explain. In a new study, it was determined that children carefully select who they imitate, even though the behavior comes naturally to them.
Until now, it was believed that babies would copy the behaviors of whomever they ca... |
12 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that adults continue to engage in competitive risk-taking behaviors until they reach the age of 50, sometimes ever more. These results show that this trend extends for several more decades that originally thought.
Adults are more than willing... |
12 November 2011
04:43 GMT |
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The results of a long-term study conducted by experts at the University of Michigan on those who make up Generation X has revealed that these individuals are a lot happier than previous investigations had suggested.
The paper uncovered that 70 percent of these people are working for 40 hours or more each week, and ... |
25 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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In a new investigation, researchers determined that teenagers who are binge eaters, or who engage in other unhealthy and excessive weight control behaviors, tend to carry the habit with them into adulthood. This contributes to the growing incidence of obesity and other diseases in the population.Experts at the Univer... |
27 June 2011
05:59 GMT |
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As any parent could tell you, teenagers and young adults are a lot more prone to experiencing stress and anxiety when exposed to situations that would not necessarily elicit the same feelings in an adult. A new research study has just discovered the reason why this difference of perception exists.Experts now say that... |
3 May 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Children, teens and adults who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be more creative than their peers who do not have the condition, say the results of a new scientific study. While it's true that the disorder entails a number of challenges for both the sufferers and their family, this... |
14 March 2011
09:49 GMT |
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The conclusions of a long-term cohort study recently showed that individuals who tend to be more energetic, happy and positive as teens are also more likely to go through a divorce later on in life. It was also found that these people were not more likely than their peers to get married as adults, and have a good per... |
28 February 2011
09:36 GMT |
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A new scientific research demonstrates that children literally see things differently than adults do, especially until they reach the age of 13. It's only then that their brain begins interpreting visual stimuli the way the adult brain does. One example the researchers behind the new work give of this change is ... |
1 November 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Teens say that its tough enough being their age in today's society how it is, but the situation is worse for adolescents who are also part of ethnic minorities. These minorities still feel the effects of discrimination, say investigators at an American university. The team says that it's hard being a teen,... |
14 September 2010
09:02 GMT |
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Many people know that a person's character and personality is largely established by the time they are very young. The traits that will define that individual throughout his or her life can be clearly identified when he or she is as little as 7 years old. In a new investigation, scientists show that, by the time... |
6 August 2010
10:08 GMT |
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The general opinion says that adults recall better than children negative events, as they are more likely to react rationally. A new Cornell study published online in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, presents evidence that contradicts this belief.Charles Brainerd and Valerie Reyna, professors of human de... |
23 July 2010
06:34 GMT |
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Fairness is one of the underlying concepts of life, and one that has been with our species since the earliest days. This is obvious when considering that even children tend to have their own, well-rooted views of what is fair and what is not. However, people seldom remain with the same concept and beliefs related to ... |
28 May 2010
09:56 GMT |
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Over the past couple of years, the strong economic downturn that has been sweeping the world produced a series of devastating effects, both financially and economically. But it also triggered the emergence of some interesting social effects as well. One of these consequences is the fact that more and more multi-gener... |
18 March 2010
04:34 GMT |
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Any self-respecting tattoo artist will ask his or her customer twice before starting to work on their skin. Given the difficulties associated with removing the ink from under the skin, and the fact that it’s tremendously expensive to do so, people need to make sure that they are always 100 percent convinced the... |
4 March 2010
05:56 GMT |
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A new scientific paper proposes a new idea related to sleep health. Researchers behind it write that older adults may experience a decreased need for sleep as they further age, provided that they are otherwise healthy. The investigation has determined that adults tend to need significantly less sleep during average d... |
1 February 2010
02:56 GMT |
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A new scientific study seems to suggest that children are far better at detecting the tricks behind optical illusions than the elderly. This ability may be partially owed to the different way in which the two age groups size up the target objects, and relate their sizes to everything around them. This may also mean, ... |
24 November 2009
06:35 GMT |
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According to a new scientific research, which has unfolded over more than two decades, Canadian adults are highly inactive, and spend very little time exercising when they have some time off. When comparing results from previous studies, taken in 1981, 1988, and 2002/4, experts learned that only 12 percent of the sur... |
13 May 2009
09:03 GMT |
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A new long-term study, conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois, shows that teenagers who exhibit greater social skills during their sophomore, and who are also engaged in extra-curricular activities, are far more likely than their peers with similar results in school to do well in their life. In other ... |
26 March 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Even if this piece of news comes after most people already got the flu or the common cold, which is caused by the Human Rhinovirus (HRV), scientists announced that they might have just finished sequencing the genome of the most common viral strain. This will, over the years, provide researchers with enough informatio... |
14 February 2009
03:52 GMT |
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