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Tilting Cars on the Assembly Line: A New Angle on Protecting Autoworkers

By Guest PostMay 18, 2012General, Scienceautoworker, carriage study, chair study, coham, honda motor, injury, kevin fitzsimons, new angle, ohio state, protecting autoworkers, shoulder stress, spine, sue ferguson, tilting cars, william marras

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Letting autoworkers sit while they reach into a car’s interior could help prevent shoulder and back strain – but another solution might be to tilt the entire car so that workers can stand up.

That’s the finding of two recent studies, which tested two ways to protect autoworkers from injury.

Sitting on a cantilevered chair reduced the stress on the workers’ backs and shoulders for three common installation tasks. But a different strategy – tilting a car sideways on a carriage so that workers could access the interior while standing – reduced the stress for nine different tasks. (more…)

Preschoolers’ Reading Skills Benefit From One Modest Change by Teachers

By Guest PostApril 24, 2012Educationanita mcginty, book, causal link, classroom, comparison classroom, jeff grabmeier, joan kaderavek, laura justice, ohio state, parent, preschool children, preschooler, project star, reading skill, shayne piasta, star group, teacher

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A small change in how teachers and parents read aloud to preschoolers may provide a big boost to their reading skills later on, a new study found.

That small change involves making specific references to print in books while reading to children – such as pointing out letters and words on the pages, showing capital letters, and showing how you read from left to right and top to bottom on the page. (more…)

Stress About Wife’s Breast Cancer Can Harm A Man’s Health

By Guest PostApril 18, 2012Healthbreast cancer, cancer diagnosis, caroline dorfman, coughing, disease, gastrointestinal problems, hae chung yang, headaches, Health, immune dysregulation, kristen carpenter, laura simonelli, men, nausea, negative effect, ohio state, ohio state university, physical symptom, sharla wells di gregorio, stress assessment, stress symptom, symptom, treatment, weaker immune, william carson, wive

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Caring for a wife with breast cancer can have a measurable negative effect on men’s health, even years after the cancer diagnosis and completion of treatment, according to recent research.

Men who reported the highest levels of stress in relation to their wives’ cancer were at the highest risk for physical symptoms and weaker immune responses, the study showed. (more…)

Study: With the Right Photo, Your Facebook Text Profile Hardly Matters

By Guest PostMarch 7, 2012Technologyabout me, brandon van der heide, erin schumaker, extrovert, Facebook, introvert, jeff grabmeier, jonathan dangelo, ohio state, photograph, positive photo, profile photo, text, van der heide

COLUMBUS, Ohio – In most cases, your profile photo on Facebook tells viewers what they need to know to form an impression of you – no words are necessary, new research suggests.

College students who viewed a Facebook photo of a fellow student having fun with friends rated that person as extraverted – even if his profile said he was “not a big people-person.” (more…)

Children Don’t Give Words Special Power to Categorize Their World

By Guest PostJanuary 1, 2012Scienceadults, carrot eaters, dog, experiment, fictional creatures, flurps, jeff grabmeier, language, meat eaters, objects, ohio state, salient feature, scientists, thinking of children, triangle antennae, vladimir sloutsky, wei deng, young children

COLUMBUS, Ohio – New research challenges the conventional thinking that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand objects in the world around them.

In a new study involving 4- to 5-year-old children, researchers found that the labels adults use to classify items – words like “dog” or “pencil” – don’t have the same ability to influence the thinking of children. (more…)

Elderly Can Be as Fast as Young in Some Brain Tasks, Study Shows

By Guest PostDecember 30, 2011Science25 year olds, asterisks, children, computer screen, decision making tasks, elderly, faster response, gail mckoon, jessica love, john opfer, large number, nonwords, ohio state, quick decisions, roger ratcliff, small number

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Both children and the elderly have slower response times when they have to make quick decisions in some settings.

But recent research suggests that much of that slower response is a conscious choice to emphasize accuracy over speed.

In fact, healthy older people can be trained to respond faster in some decision-making tasks without hurting their accuracy – meaning their cognitive skills in this area aren’t so different from younger adults. (more…)

Study Debunks Stereotype That Men Think About Sex All Day Long

By Guest PostDecember 4, 2011Sciencebiological needs, biological sex, erotophilia, erotophobia, every seven seconds, frequency, male or female, mary jo pittenger, men, ohio state, psychology, sex, sexual thoughts, sexuality, sociosexual orientation, stereotype, terri fisher, women, young women, zachary moore

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Men may think about sex more often than women do, but a new study suggests that men also think about other biological needs, such as eating and sleep, more frequently than women do, as well.

And the research discredits the persistent stereotype that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would amount to more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours. In the study, the median number of young men’s thought about sex stood at almost 19 times per day. Young women in the study reported a median of nearly 10 thoughts about sex per day. (more…)

Focus on Testing Hurts Students in High School Health Classes

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2011Educationann o connell, appalachia, deleon gray, derek lane, eric m anderman, extrinsic focus, george mason university, health education, healthy behavior, high school health classes, knowledge, low pressure, mastery focus, navigate sexual situations, ohio state, pamela cupp, pregnancy prevention, rick zimmerman, rural communities, safe sex habits, sex related topics, sexual advances, studying hiv, teacher, university of kentucky

COLUMBUS, Ohio – High school health classes fail to help students refuse sexual advances or endorse safe sex habits when teachers focus primarily on testing knowledge, a new study reveals.

But when teachers emphasized learning the material for its own sake, and to improve health, students had much better responses. In these kinds of classrooms, students had lower intentions of having sex and felt better able to navigate sexual situations.

“A focus on tests doesn’t help students in health classes make healthier choices,” said Eric M. Anderman, lead author of the study and professor of educational psychology at Ohio State University. (more…)

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