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March 12, 2024

Are you Cheating on Me? Identifying Factors Contributing to the Use of Suspicion Confirmation and Avoidance Strategies

Rosie Shrout

This study integrates communication, motivational, and behavioral elements to identify factors that lead to the use of key information seeking strategies people employ to confirm or avoid suspicions about a partner’s potential cheating.

March 9, 2024

Barriers and Facilitators to Breastfeeding Practices Among Immigrant Muslim Arab Women Living in a Metropolitan Area of the Southwestern United States

Azza Ahmed

Immigrant Muslim Arab women are a fast-growing and underserved minority group in the United States. Immigrant Muslim Arab women face breastfeeding challenges in accessing and seeking healthcare. Little is known about breastfeeding challenges that immigrant Muslim Arab women face to...

March 8, 2024

Insisting on Success as Resistance: Building an Ecosystem of Black Joy, Laughter and Affirmation

Breanya Hogue

School climate is a complex system involving norms, goals, values, relationships, practices and organizational structures. It includes the composition of the school and school practices. School composition encompasses the social and economic characteristics of a school, whereas school practice includes...

March 6, 2024

Patterns of Gender Development Across Intersections of Age, Gender, and Ethnicity-Race

Kim Updegraff

Two components of gender identity are gender similarity, how one’s self-concept relates to the major gender collectives (i.e., female, male), and felt pressure to conform to gender norms. The development of these components across ages and contexts has been understudied....

March 4, 2024

Contributions of preschool behavioral self-regulation and social skills to growth in different domains of early math knowledge

Rob Duncan, Jim Elicker, David Purpura

The current study explored the relative contribution of individual differences in children’s behavioral self-regulation and social skills (often referred to as learning-related skills) in the fall of preschool to children’s rate of growth in different domains of early math knowledge...

March 1, 2024

Biden opens doors to government jobs for military spouses

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth

The Joe Biden administration released new guidelines on hiring federal workers, with the goal of improving prospects for one chronically unemployed and underemployed group: military spouses.

February 29, 2024

University receives grants for sustainable agriculture projects

Maria Marshall

Purdue University recently received two grants of $1 million each from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture for five-year projects to enhance sustainable agricultural systems.

February 29, 2024

County-Level Factors Associated With Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccination in Indiana, 2020–2022

Laura Schwab-Reese

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), represents an unprecedented public health crisis in modern times.

February 29, 2024

Parent-child conflict in Mexican-origin families: Charting development from adolescence to young adulthood

Kim Updegraff

Grounded in developmental and cultural-ecological perspectives, the current study examined trajectories of parent-youth conflict regarding everyday issues across adolescence and into young adulthood.

February 27, 2024

Positive Affect and Physical Activity Associations in Women and Their Spouses

Libby Richards, Melissa Franks, Karen Foli

Only 21% of U.S. women meet the recommended physical activity guidelines, placing them at increased risk for long-term conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.

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