Michele W. Berger

When a 2013 study published in Science concluded that reading literary fiction for as few as 20 minutes could improve someone’s social abilities, it made quite the splash.

How much does not having advanced notice of your daily or weekly schedule affect your mental and physical health? For those who work in the retail sector, the answer is quite a bit.

At 10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27, just three days before the University of Pennsylvania kicked off another school year’s classes, 40 or so students gathered in the green next to Harrison College House for wings, ice cream and sodas. They weren’t simply hanging out but rather there to talk to and learn about more than half a dozen mental-health groups on campus.

 Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.In psychology, they’re known as the “Dark Triad.” By looking at tweets, Jordan Carpenter and Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, postdoctoral fellows in Penn’s Positive Psychology Center, have figured out how people who exhibit these behaviors act online.

Current conversations about urban sustainability are too narrowly focused, ignoring regional and global impacts and leaving out key grassroots groups with social justice agendas.

“The Great Recession is the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. If you can’t make an argument that inequality matters for the severity of this downturn, then it’s unlikely to matter much for smaller recessions, or for normal times.”

What collateral damage comes from having a criminal record?

On Bonnie’s Bus, parked in a lot at Camp Caesar in Webster Springs, W. Va., Chana Schaffer is in a bit of a bind.

By Patrick Ammerman Why do some science news stories catch our eye, even if they use exaggerated, irrelevant or inaccurate information?

Getting up in front of several dozen women to discuss cervical cancer screening and prevention can be a nerve-wracking pursuit. But after presenting at a conference in West Virginia co-led by the School of Nursing, Penn Nursing alumna Jessegnia Velasquez and graduate student Tahara Prescott-Palmer know how to work a crowd.