Howard Hardee
Reporter, Mind & Behavior and Technology
@Howard_HardeeHoward Hardee, based in Madison, Wisconsin, covers Technology and Mind & Behavior for The Academic Times. Previously, Howard covered mis- and disinformation as an election integrity reporter at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and as a local news fellow for First Draft, a global fact-checking organization. An award-winning reporter with a decade of experience, he holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and in 2017 was honored as an environmental reportage fellow at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada.
Men with disagreeable personalities who are in traditional marriages earn higher salaries, but only if they are supported by highly conscientious wives at home, new research involving roughly 1,750 married couples suggests.
News stories presented as fact-checks could help readers update their beliefs more accurately than conventional news articles, but such stories are also perceived to be more biased, new research suggests.
Most people can sense when a conflict is brewing in their personal relationships, but what if their smartphones could, too — and could intervene during the moments before an argument boiled over? That's the idea behind a developing technology that could detect and mediate relationship problems by tapping into data from smart devices.
Although it's widely assumed that giving gifts strengthens relationships with friends, family and romantic partners, a new set of studies suggests that there's a darker side to generous acts: People may act more selfishly after giving someone else a present.
New research finds that babies of mothers experiencing postnatal anxiety have more difficulty processing both happy faces and fearful faces, highlighting the importance of mother-infant interactions in the development of emotional processing.
Experiencing mistreatment in the workplace is a highly prevalent global phenomenon that affects more than a third of employees across 62 countries and results in hundreds of billions to nearly 2 trillion dollars in lost productivity, but greater legal protections for workers may have a protective effect, according to a new meta-analysis.
Swedish researchers have found that people who experience long-term work exhaustion are more likely to report symptoms of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, hinting at a possible link between burnout and perfectionism, a factor of OCPD.
Scientists have gained new insight into the genetic underpinnings of post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder through a first-of-its-kind study based on blood samples taken in emergency rooms from patients who had just experienced traumatic events.
Israeli scientists have discovered a previously unknown cognitive mechanism that allows bats to move through expansive environments, furthering our understanding of how mammalian memory supports navigation, according to a groundbreaking study published Thursday.
The brain activity of self-described political partisans suggests that a general intolerance of life's uncertainties among both conservatives and liberals could give rise to us-versus-them mentalities, researchers have found.
Researchers have observed that people don't like leaving medical decisions to artificial intelligence, but telling patients about racial and economic gaps in health care may warm them up to the idea of clinicians using algorithms to guide decision-making, a new set of psychological studies suggests.
New research shows that the effects of chronic cannabis abuse on the cerebellum and people's sleep patterns vary by sex, with female users reporting lower quality of sleep than men — particularly if they started using cannabis during adolescence.