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Brooke Adams

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The irony of awkward: Taking yourself out of uncomfortable situations makes you more uncomfortable in the long run

By Brooke Adams
June 28, 2016
Not all withdrawn individuals are the same, but for emerging adults who do everything they can to avoid social interaction, combining that with things like violent video games or pornography can cause big problems.

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Intellect

Disney Princesses: Not Brave Enough

By Brooke Adams
June 16, 2016
Gendered behavior can become problematic if girls avoid important learning experiences. BYU professor Sarah M. Coyne looks at how Disney Princesses play a role.

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Intellect

Family size and education levels: the right support could reverse long-held theory

By Brooke Adams
May 18, 2016
More kids in your family. Less education. This pattern isn’t new, but a team of researchers led by BYU sociology professor Ben Gibbs studied why that educational dip occurs and found that there are exceptions to the trend.

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Intellect

Using Nature to Nurture Robots

By Brooke Adams
April 26, 2016
BYU researchers were inspired by Mother Nature in their quest to design movement patterns for a small army of robots. The computer scientists programmed the robots to mimic flocks of birds and schools of fish.

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Intellect

X-why? Female researchers sweep this year’s 3 Minute Thesis competition

By Brooke Adams
March 21, 2016
For the first time since the 3-Minute Thesis competition began at BYU, there was a three-way tie for first place.

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Intellect

Field goal forecasts: BYU study predicts the outcome of basketball possessions

By Brooke Adams
March 16, 2016
The "pick and roll" is one of the most commonly used plays on the basketball court, but statistically it might not be the most effective play when it comes to scoring.

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Character

Study: Teens who help strangers are better off down the road

By Brooke Adams
December 09, 2015
A new study found that teenagers who help strangers are less likely to participate in delinquent behaviors and show aggression later in life.

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Intellect

Frenemies: not just for high school anymore

By Brooke Adams
October 12, 2015
A new study from BYU finds that couples in ambivalent, frenemy-like relationships experience higher blood pressure than their supportive-couple counterparts.

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Intellect

Students only have to drive 15 minutes to reach the 13th century

By Brooke Adams
August 13, 2015
Students participated in the archaeology field school at a Fremont Indian site in west Provo that professor Michael Searcy has been investigating for the past two years. The site includes a traditional Fremont pit house, an adobe-walled building, and other structures, but covers just a portion of the Fremont's expansive village.
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