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Penn Study Reveals What Happens When Depression, Anxiety Coincide With Minor Injury
When someone breaks a leg or fractures a rib, injuries considered relatively minor, providers often don’t look beyond what’s initially required to help that person heal.
Penn grad student’s whiskey distillery gets boost in West Philly
Like most Ph.D. students looking for answers to outstanding questions, Zachary Cohen relied on academic papers and an online community of peers.
Power poses don’t help boost confidence after all, Penn research shows
When a 2010 study touted that making a power pose—like a Wonder Woman stance with hands on hips and shoulders back—for just two minutes before an important encounter could boost confidence by increasing certain hormones, it made quite the splash. In the ensuing years, however, numerous researchers have tried to replicate those findings, to no
Penn archaeologist discovers ancient Egyptian boat in middle of desert
When Penn archaeologist Josef Wegner and colleagues first came across structures buried deep beneath the sand in the Egyptian city of Abydos, they anticipated finding more evidence of a pharaoh cemetery
New federal center gives Penn researchers access to exclusive, high-quality government data
A significant amount of confidential data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other governmental entities will soon become available for free to Penn researchers who qualify because of the University’s part in establishing a new Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) in Philadelphia.
Power Poses Don’t Help and Could Potentially Backfire, Penn Study Shows
The idea behind power poses, that if you stand in a “powerful” position, broad posture, hands on hips, shoulders high and pushed back, you will suddenly feel psychologically and physiologically stronger, is intuitively appealing, especially for people without much confidence.
Penn, CHOP Research: Even With Workplace Support, Breastfeeding Takes Commitment
Sometimes all it takes is a single interaction or a thoughtless comment from a coworker to make a new mother feel negatively about her experience with breastfeeding and pumping at work.
Penn Researchers Receive $1.1 Million NSF Grant to Protect Internet Security
University of Pennsylvania researchers Nadia Heninger, Ted Chinburg, Brett Hemenway and Zach Scherr are tr
Penn Awards IEA Director Kleinman Center’s Carnot Prize, Creates Fellowship in His Honor
The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design awarded its second annual Carnot Prize to Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency.
Penn Psychologists Tap Big Data, Twitter to Analyze Accuracy of Stereotypes
What’s in a tweet? People draw conclusions about us, from our gender to education level, based on the words we use on social media. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, along with colleagues from the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Melbourne, have now analyzed the accuracy of those inferences.