Commonplace suggestive jokes, such as “that’s what she said,” normalize and dismiss the horror of sexual misconduct experiences, experts suggest in a new essay published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

Maintaining positive, warm and trusting friendships might be the key to a slower decline in memory and cognitive functioning, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.

Maintaining positive, warm and trusting friendships might be the key to a slower decline in memory and cognitive functioning, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.

Until now evolutionary biologists have assumed that the presence of a woman’s mother or her mother in law in the household increases the woman’s number of children and, thus, the grandmother’s number of grandchildren. Furthermore, it was assumed that women frequently move to the families and households of their husbands.

If you want to know how someone is feeling, it might be better to close your eyes and use your ears: People tend to read others’ emotions more accurately when they listen and don’t look, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

For the first time, researchers have evidence of exactly what dads are doing while moms are taking care of housework or tending to their child.