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When families break apart, the casualties from the divorce are far more than the husband and the wife. However, in today’s society, more and more marriages end in divorce.

Optimistic people may contribute to the health of their partners, research finds. The study, with 4,500 heterosexual couples, ...

CHARISSA S. L. CHEAH, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Asian studies Faculty Affiliate at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. As a cultural developmental scientist, Dr. Cheah utilizes mixed-method approaches to explore how individual characteristics, relationships, socialization agents, and contexts interact to influence social-emotional, mental, and physical health. She is particularly interested in understanding these processes among Asian American and Muslim...

DGIST □ DGIST announced that Research Professor Kyung Ah Han of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and postdoctoral researcher Heejin Lim of the Department of New Biology were selected for the Se Jong Science Fellowship Program supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF).   □ The Se Jong Science Fellowship is a system that supports young scientists, such as post-doctorate researchers, so they can focus on their studies. The s...

Florida International University 1970s Hope Jacobson 77, MS 85, EdD 98 was awarded the Bill Crutchfield Award For Outstanding and Distinguished Service from Special Olympics FL. She has been a volunteer with the organization since 1974 in a wide range of roles, including coaching athletes, teaching in the Athlete Leadership University (Academy), and fundraising and facilitating community-based programs. She also was a coordinator for Athlete Leadership Miami. Now retired from Miami-Dade County...

How Friends Influence One Another–For Better or Worse–in High School Gail Cornwall  (flukyfluky/iStock) High school students face many of the same friendship dynamics as elementary and middle school students, yet friendship operates in distinct ways in these later adolescence years. The buffering effect friends provided in earlier childhood, for example, seems to disappear. “Not only did the presence of friends not reduce stress,” writes Lydia Denworth in the 2020 book Friendshi...