President Trump’s verbal broadsides drew gasps and nervous laughter at the annual gathering of political and business leaders.

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found. Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to ...

Standardized admission tests such as the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT) aim to ensure fairness in higher education selection by assessing verbal and quantitative skills. Previous research ...

Social media rumors falsely claim Section 8 housing assistance will have a two-year cap or be ended entirely. President Trump's 2026 budget proposes overhauling Section 8 and other HUD programs, but ...

Physical and verbal abuse during childhood were each associated with a greater than 50% increase in likelihood of poor mental health during adulthood, with exposure to both types of abuse compounding ...

A major new study has found that verbal abuse in childhood may be just as damaging to long-term mental well-being as physical abuse, if not more so. This groundbreaking research highlights the need to ...

This paper reports on an important study that aims to move beyond current experimental approaches in speech production by (1) investigating speech in the context of a fully interactive task and (2) ...

Your choice of words says more about your intelligence than you think—especially the ones you quietly avoid. We often talk about intelligence as something you either have or don’t. But the truth is, ...

Cruel words can leave a mark on a child –– and may have as much of an impact as physical abuse, new research has found. People who experienced physical abuse as a child were at a 50% increased risk ...

Experiencing childhood verbal abuse shows a similar impact to adult mental health as physical abuse, suggests a large intergenerational study, published in the open access journal BMJ Open. While ...

When Peterson first rose to prominence, it was for daring to say something utterly basic but revolutionary in our current moment: men are not toxic by default. His message wasn’t about domination or ...