What would you do for love? Everyone wants to be better looking, more beautiful, and more appealing to potential romantic partners. To accomplish that, we put a lot of effort into enhancing our ...

(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 ...

Zhuang Hao, an economics Ph.D. candidate, and economist Benjamin Cowan, both at Washington State University, examined the number of math and science courses that states required for a high school ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guns, gender identity, drugs, sex. These are among the hot-button, politically charged topics in Florida you largely won't see on the state's new voluntary health survey for teens. "Instead, they ...

National News Worried About Risky Teenage Behavior? Make School Tougher Like all parents of teenagers, I worry that my children will engage in risky behavior, including drinking, smoking and drug use.