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To the long list of things to consider when choosing a mate, there is now evidence suggesting that your spouse’s personality can have a major influence on your own ability to recover from – and perhaps even survive – a major challenge to your health.
It is a finding drawn from a study by a team of researchers including John M. Ruiz, an assistant professor of psychology at Washington State University, as well as Karen A. Matthews and Richard Schulz, at the University of Pittsburgh, and Michael F. Scheier with Carnegie Mellon University.
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With U.S. consumers now spending billions of dollars online each year, researchers at WSU’s College of Business, including John Wells (l) and D. Veena Parboteeah (r), are discovering that retailers can add certain features to their Web sites that enhance the ‘entertainment value ‘of the shopping experience, prompting an increase in ‘impulse buying’ and driving up the amount of money consumers are willing to spend.
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PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State University researcher Denny Davis and colleagues have been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation that seeks to improve student interest in math in secondary grades and better understand the factors affecting student interest in engineering and science careers.
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American popular culture isn’t a distraction from the serious issues of our time. It is inseparable from them, and always has been.
LeRoy Ashby, Washington State University Regents Professor of History, makes the case that popular culture is both a mirror and a shaper of our times in a 648-page meticulously researched volume titled “With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830.”
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Americans strongly support open government and the press’ ability to access public records, and that support seems to be increasing, according to a national poll completed March 4 by researchers at Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow School of Communication.
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Mary Roe, professor of literacy education, sees her new summer reading program as a “triangle of learning opportunities.”
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Guy Westhoff, assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in Washington State University’s College of Education, has made integrating technology in the classroom his research and teaching focus. Westhoff is training the next generations of K-12 teachers to use blogs and other new and emerging technologies as teaching tools.
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A new study by Washington State University researchers Erica Weintraub Austin and Bruce Pinkleton found that in-school public affairs programming, which contains news and advertising or public service announcements, can provide some benefits to young adolescents. But the study also found justification for concerns—including those voiced by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)—about the commercialization of the classroom.
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Washington State University Professor Arreed Barabasz received the 2005 Best Book on Hypnosis Arthur Shapiro Award for his book “Hypnotherapeutic Techniques 2E.”
The award is bestowed by the preeminent Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, which is charted by the Board of Regents of the State of New York.
