The Kinsey Institute released new data from its annual Singles in America survey, the nation’s most comprehensive and longest-running annual study of single adults. Surveying approximately 5,000 U.S. singles aged 18 and older, Kinsey Institute researchers examine attitudes, behaviors, and experiences across areas such as singlehood, dating, relationships, marriage, and children, as well as wider social and economic context in which relationships take place, including finances, work, gender roles, mental health, social media, technology, and politics. Data show renewed interest in marriage, economic barriers to relationship and family formation, shifting attitudes to love at first sight, new roles for technology, and new strategies for finding partners. 

The University of Cincinnati is part of Ohio's $18 million behavioral health scholarship program, offering graduate students in selected fields full tuition in exchange for serving underserved communities after graduation.

Most people think of segregation as a social phenomenon. But a Cary-led special feature in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines how segregation also has deep ecological legacies that shape things like access to water, safety from floods, and exposure to extreme heat. To foster equitable cities, the Segregation and Urban Ecology special feature emphasizes the importance of understanding urban spaces as social-ecological systems in order to break cycles that reinforce segregation and its harms.

A UCLA-led research team studying the Kia/Hyundai crime spree that started in 2020 predicts these cars will continue to be stolen through at least 2042. The researchers cite a combination of factors including a lack of anti-theft equipment in certain models, an increase in unstructured time during COVID, traditional print and cable news coverage that might have encouraged copycats, and viral “Kia Boys” videos that glorified joyrides and showed how easy the cars were to steal. The researchers encourage owners of vulnerable models to take advantage of manufacturer recalls and advise consumers looking for new cars should verify that engine immobilizers come as standard equipment.

People with social anxiety have amplified brain activity that improves learning under low demands but hinders learning under higher demands.

A new study has revealed how both reduced neural activity and reduced control of neural activity in the prefrontal area of the brain can disrupt the ability to adapt behaviour when circumstances change. 

In the late 1800s, newspapers ran alarming headlines about a dangerous new technology corrupting the nation’s youth. Books. Kids were sneaking off to libraries to read Horatio Alger, and parents were convinced it would ruin them. More than a century later, the medium has changed dramatically. But the fear, experts say, has not. The tension between panic and practicality was at the heart of a packed panel discussion Sept. 8 at UC Irvine, the third installment of the “Raising the Next Generation in the Age of AI” series. Co-presented by UCI’s School of Social Ecology, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, the Office of Research, the Connected Learning Lab, and CERES (Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem), the event brought together researchers, a tech industry leader and a youth advocate for a candid, research-grounded conversation about helping families navigate the challenges of raising children in an increasingly digital world.