(The Conversation) — Researchers have long known that religious teens are less likely to engage in risky behavior. My team’s research explains why. We surveyed multiple times the religious beliefs and ...

A University of Michigan and James Madison University study examining risk behavior in chimps and humans finds that human intervention may be causing risky behavior to peak in adolescence. In chimps, ...

When Ichiro Kawachi established a cohort study in Iwanuma, Japan, in 2010, he thought he would be researching the predictors ...

One topic I have taken up in this blog from time-to-time is the impact of video games on behavior. There are both positive and negative consequences associated with video game play. On the positive ...

Assessment of risky sexual behavior is somewhat challenging, particularly when adolescents are involved. Measurement of behavior usually relies on verbal reports, which can suffer from a number of ...

The stereotype for teenagers (particularly teenage boys) is that they engage in risky behavior. For example, teenage drivers are far more likely to get in car accidents than older drivers. A central ...

Frequent, mandatory surveillance testing was one of the techniques deployed in some jurisdictions in an attempt to control COVID-19, but new research shows that such testing may have the unintended ...

Debra Haffner says that her mother taught her a rule about trying out new things during adolescence that she will pass on to her daughter. "I should ask myself how upset my mother would be if she knew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Risky behaviors by humans, from benignly walking a dog along a canal to knowingly swimming in alligator infested water, are ...

AI-driven cameras and telematics are helping ground teams reduce incidents, coach safer behaviors, and gain new visibility into day-to-day operations.