Jim Spencer

Teenagers write more often and more creatively than most adults realize, an English professor from Ohio State University maintains. Amy Shuman, author of a book entitled ''Storytelling Rights: The Uses...

Fruits and vegetables shimmering under coats of edible wax or other coatings may look great in grocery store produce bins, but consumers polled recently by a trade publication said the...

Opposites not only attract, they may stick together longer than those of similar temperament, says a psychologist from Washington University in St. Louis. Michael Strube conducted two studies of unmarried...

Female baboons make male friends before choosing mates, a University of Michigan anthropologist has found. Barbara Smuts spent 18 months observing a troop of 115 baboons in Kenya. During that...

Illinois businesses owned by blacks generated gross receipts of $1.1 billion in 1982, the latest year for which statistics are available. The Census Bureau reports that Illinois ranks second in...

If you find yourself dependent on the kindness of strangers and they look very different from you, take a step back before you ask for anything. That`s what Peter Glick,...

A debate exists among social scientists examining the causes and effects of homelessness in America. On one side are practitioners subscribing to the popular theory that a significant portion of...

Men need wives more than women need husbands, according to a professor at Yale University School of Medicine. Recent research by Kathleen Merikangas, a psychiatrist at Yale, suggests that marriage...

If a person thinks a personal health disorder is rare, he usually considers it more serious than a common disorder, according to a study directed by Princeton psychologist John Jemmott...

About four in 10 Americans surveyed by Chicago`s National Opinion Research Center say that they have had contact with the dead. Two-thirds claim to have experienced deja vu and extra...