Reducing polarization and "partisan animosity"—the distrust and hatred of the other party—is remarkably difficult, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences evaluating past attempts.

A new study published in the journal Preventive Medicine explores food insufficiency and financial challenges among families after multiple states stopped providing emergency allotments of SNAP benefits provided during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. SNAP benefit reductions were associated with increased difficulty affording both food and household expenses among SNAP-participant families, particularly among those with children. The risk of food insufficiency—a narrow measure that indicates that a household has not had enough food to eat within the past seven days—increased by five percentage points after several states ended their emergency allotments in 2021, compared to states that ended this assistance later. Similarly, the risk of difficulty affording household expenses increased by eight percentage points after the emergency allotments ended.

Manipulating the endocannabinoid signaling system in prenatal mice leads to long-lasting neural and genetic changes that may lead to social deficits.

First-person videos of bullying trigger distressful alarm states in viewers, which may be hazardous for mental and bodily health.

Three education experts at the University of Kansas have written a new article that outlines a host of issues that have plagued education research and limited how effective it can be. Things such as peer review fatigue, overgeneralization and conflicting results have kept researchers from leading to positive change in education. However, the age of AI presents an opportunity to rethink how education is done for new generations of scholars and educators, they write.