HealthPsychology The Analogy of/and Inoculation Theory to Mental Immunity Models from epidemiology are increasingly used to better understand how misinformation spreads in online networks.1 If…Josh Compton, Sander van der LindenDecember 13, 2022
HealthPsychology The Anxiety Epidemic in Children: What are the Causes? Rates of anxiety and depression have been rising in children since the 1980’s and might…Peter GrayAugust 23, 2022
HealthSociology How Covid-19 Reminds Us We Are More Alike Than Different Genetic differences between individuals within groups are much greater than any average differences between groups…Rosemary L. HopcroftOctober 12, 2020
HealthSociology For God’s Sake! What’s All This Fuss About a Virus? The success (or failure) that societies have had in the wake of COVID-19 offers a…Andrew AtkinsonSeptember 14, 2020
HealthSociology Institutionalization of Animal Welfare and the Evolution of Coronavirus(es) The current pandemic is an obvious manifestation of the price society has to pay for…Erin M. EvansAugust 24, 2020
HealthSociology Is Video Chat a Sufficient Proxy for Face-to-Face Interaction? Biosociological Reflections on Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic “Zoom fatigue” and “touch starvation” have evolutionary origins that researchers need to take seriously.Will Kalkhoff, Richard T. Serpe, Josh PollockJuly 28, 2020
HealthSociology Social Science Contributions to the Study of Zoonotic Spillover: Normal Accidents and Treadmill Theory Two approaches help us identify high-risk activities and social processes that heighten the likelihood of…Michael Ryan Lengefeld, Greg Hooks, Chad L. SmithJuly 27, 2020
BiologyHealth The Cheating Cell: An Interview with Athena Aktipis Understanding why and how both Twitter bots and cancer cells create conflict in different kinds…Alan Honick, Athena AktipisJune 15, 2020
HealthSports The Physical Activity Mismatch: Can Evolutionary Perspectives Inform Exercise Recommendations? It’s highly likely that some degree of mismatch exists between our modern environment and the…James SteeleMay 3, 2020
AnthropologyHealth Did Paleolithic People Suffer From Kidney Disease? Paleo-type diets by limiting salt and sugar should help limit damage to the blood vessels…Lynda FrassettoApril 29, 2020
