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Nearly all suicide-loss survivors experience guilt, wondering what they could have done to prevent it. But despite decades of research, experts struggle to identify risk factors and predict suicide.
Rates of obesity and eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia both surged among young people over the past two years. Scholars explain why, and how parents can support kids dealing with body shame.
Existe amplia evidencia sobre el daño que Instagram causa para los adolescentes, especialmente sobre su imagen corporativa. La propia investigación de Facebook confirma esto.
De nombreuses recherches attestent de la possible nocivité d’Instagram pour les adolescentes, notamment en ce qui concerne l’image qu’elles ont de leur corps.
There is ample research about how harmful Instagram is for teen girls, especially around body image. It turns out Facebook’s own research confirms it.
While writing can be a challenge, so can finding the motivation to revise one’s work. A motivation specialist explains how to overcome the reluctance to take the first draft to the next level.
A viral TikTok video is helping girls bear witness to the harassment they experience at school.
How an uncharismatic Kentucky lawyer came to rule the Senate and remake the federal judiciary from top to bottom.
Mali’s precarious political situation has been the subject of ECOWAS resolution attempts for months
The migrant laborers who staff American meat plants, construction sites and delivery services are working through the pandemic – and sending more funds back home than ever.
Comparing death tolls between COVID-19 and the flu is the wrong way to gauge which disease is a bigger threat, according to researchers who study how people understand math.
The emotion of disgust may lie beneath our fear of god and of sin.
The economy of the Bahamas depends on Haitian labor. But some Bahamians see no place for migrant workers in their country’s long, slow recovery from Hurricane Dorian.
More schools are deciding to scrap the tradition of naming a valedictorian – just as students from diverse backgrounds are becoming the first of their background to win the honor.
Recent blackface scandals that involve college yearbooks have overshadowed how yearbooks also chronicled important turning points in the history of US higher education, a historian argues.
In the information age, advertising is no longer needed to inform consumers.That means its primary role is to manipulate.
Post-World War II California built an unrivalled system of higher education combining access, affordability and choice. Then a contraction of the vision came in the 1980s.
Recent elections in Latin America have suggested a retreat from left-wing politics and populist leaders. But results from Ecuador’s 2017 presidential election suggest otherwise.
This Tuesday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. Gender biases continue and women’s voices are missing from expert discussions.
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Director and Professor, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky
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Ph.D. Candidate and Instructor in Geography, University of Kentucky
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Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies, University of Kentucky
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Professor of Sociology, University of Kentucky
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Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Kentucky
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Professor of Neurology, University of Kentucky
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Visiting Professor of Politics at Centre College, University of Kentucky
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University Research Professor, University of Kentucky
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Professor of Social Work, University of Kentucky
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Clinical Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology, University of Kentucky
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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Assistant Professor of Law, University of Kentucky
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky
