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The new season of the English Premier League is almost ready to kick off, and with it comes another annual cycle of the national game. Each August brings hope and expectation for supporters, with an […]

“She’s your mom.” “They’re your family.” “Blood is thicker than water.”This post was originally published on this site

Conversations about the youth justice system typically focus on crime and punishment. In Australia, this has fueled increasingly populist and punitive youth justice policies like Queensland’s Adult Crime, Adult Time policy or Victoria’s Adult Time […]

Women are more likely to form close-knit friendship groups at work, a Durham University Business School study suggests. The findings are published in the journal Social Networks.This post was originally published on this site

Like many women raised in traditional cultures and religious contexts, I was taught that a “good” woman holds the family together. In my culture, women were often glorified for quietly accepting hardship.This post was originally […]

Mental health issues are now the most prevalent cause of sick leave in Finland. It is common for an employee’s declining occupational well-being to result in a sick leave referral, while nothing changes at the […]

When we read a news story about a new cancer treatment, an Alzheimer’s breakthrough or an innovative technology, we rarely think about everything that happens behind the scenes before that information reaches newspapers, radio or […]

Do your social media accounts feed you content that reflects your core beliefs and guiding principles? Our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the algorithms supplying your […]

Are people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds more willing to help—or do the wealthy give more? For years, research has provided conflicting answers. A new study by Kühne Logistics University (KLU), based on data from approximately […]

Consistent enforcement of rules is more important than the severity of the punishment itself, and children expect adults to treat every member of their group impartially and equally. Moreover, fair punishment brings emotional relief to […]