Health News

High speed air hand dryers spread contamination more than paper towels

High speed air dryers not only leave more contamination on poorly washed hands compared to paper towels, but during hand drying, they can also spread germs onto clothing, ultimately transferring more bacteria to other surfaces, according to a study published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology […]

Kids Health

Items people should be hoarding instead of toilet paper

Got enough TP on hand in case of coronavirus quarantine? Chances are, you probably do, since you probably don’t need quite as much as you might think. Whew, that’s a relief! Now you can turn your efforts to stockpiling other necessary items — hopefully before everybody else also realizes that they should be hoarding those […]

Health Problems

New paper stresses the importance of ecological thinking and diverse study samples to improve psychological science

For decades, consensus among psychologists has held that a cluster of five personality traits—or a slight variation thereof—universally defines the structure of human personality.Previous research conducted in high-income countries and across many cultures found strong support for what experts refer to as the “Big Five”—openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion and neuroticism. However, when UC Santa Barbara […]