Developmental scientists and medical social science experts at Northwestern University have spearheaded the creation of the most recent NIH Toolbox, providing the newest nationally standardized assessment of cognitive, language, motor and social-emotional skill development in infants aged 16 days to 42 months.

The original NIH Toolbox, although widely implemented in clinical and research settings, was designed to measure children from 3 years of age through adulthood. 

Research reveals how political crises cause a shift in the force behind viral online content ‘from outgroup hate to ingroup love’.

Attending live events can combat loneliness and build social connections, particularly if those events are in person, according to new research from the University of Georgia and Brigham Young University.

Online grocery shopping has the potential to increase food access for households in areas where supermarkets selling affordable, healthy foods are scarce. When Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits were expanded to include online food purchases, it increased access to markets, but research showed that SNAP families who shopped online made fewer purchases of fruits, vegetables, and legumes. 

In a new study, nutrition researchers provided incentives for caregivers of young children to address barriers to purchasing healthy foods online, including lack of awareness of the program’s benefits, expensive online delivery fees, and lack of trust in shoppers to select high-quality products. They found that the incentives led to an increase in household purchases of healthy foods, and a decrease in household food insecurity, among other positive outcomes.

A new study from the University of Georgia and Brigham Young University demonstrates how attending live events can help combat loneliness and build social connections. The research, forthcoming in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, pinpoints specific characteristics of events that most effectively foster feelings of connectedness.

Even in the post-#MeToo era, news reporting on sexual violence remains problematic and causes harms, McGill researchers have found. The researchers conducted a thematic review of academic literature, analyzing 41 relevant articles published between 2013 and 2023 in the Global North to assess whether news coverage of sexual violence has evolved since the #MeToo movement of 2017 had increased awareness.