Social & Behavior

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4-Nov-2025

WVU researchers take youth substance use prevention into rural communities

West Virginia University
Grant and Award Announcement

West Virginia University public health researchers are working collaboratively with local partners, like county health departments, to stop drug use in youth before it starts, driving federal grant money to some of the state’s poorest counties and developing approaches tailored to individual communities.

Funder

National Institute on Drug Abuse

4-Nov-2025

Rural health disparities need greater focus in COPD research

COPD Foundation

COPD research needs to increase focus on rural health disparities and consider the impact of sociocultural and environmental exposures on health outcomes, according to a new perspective in the September 2025 issue of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation, a peer-reviewed, open access journal.

Journal

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases Journal of the COPD Foundation

4-Nov-2025

Digital divide narrows but gaps remain for Australians as GenAI use surges

RMIT University
Reports and Proceedings

The Australian Digital Inclusion Index has found almost half of Australians recently used generative AI tools, raising new opportunities and challenges for digital inclusion.

Funder

Australian Research Council, Telstra

4-Nov-2025

Seeing persuasion in the brain

PNAS Nexus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An analysis of brain scans from 572 people reveals that activity in brain regions linked to reward and social processing can predict how effective messages will be.

Journal

PNAS Nexus

4-Nov-2025

A sequence of human rights violations precedes mass atrocities, new research shows

Binghamton University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Based on human rights data from four decades, new research from political scientists at Binghamton University, State University of New York reveals that human rights violations escalate in predictable patterns, which can potentially culminate in atrocities.

Journal

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice

4-Nov-2025

Can a politician’s tweeting strategy betray their ambitions?

Stevens Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using tools from network science, researchers built a statistical model that observed how senators and congresspeople interacted with one another on X, formerly known as Twitter, which deduced their positions and potential ambitions. 

Journal

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

4-Nov-2025

2.75-million-year-old stone tools may mark a turning point in human evolution

George Washington University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts. A recent study, published in Nature Communications, brought to light remarkable evidence of enduring technological tradition from Kenya’s Turkana Basin.

Journal

Nature Communications