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A new study finds no evidence of a widespread surge in total, violent or property crime in large U.S. cities in the aftermath of the highly publicized police shooting of Michael Brown. But the research does show the overall rate of robberies across the country has increased, as has the murder rate in certain cities.

A child’s perception of an adult’s trustworthiness can affect his or her willingness to resist a small, immediately available reward in order to obtain a larger reward later, a new ��ƷSM����ӰƬ study has discovered.

Thomas G. Andrews, associate professor of history, is writing a book exploring humanity’s relationships with the non-human animal world, but he can sum up his thoughts on the matter in a single word: messy.

'Our results can assist policymakers in breaking the vicious cycle between drug use and violent deaths, including some suicides,’ researcher says.

If you are an eyewitness, and have implicated a suspect not of the same race as you, are you accurate in recognizing and telling that person apart from others?’ Probably not, CU researcher finds

Adam Bradley is a study in contrasts: a hip-hop expert who grew up in Salt Lake City, dissecting the literary devices of Shakespeare in one breath and Slick Rick in the next. He teaches in English, but his RAP Lab is in the chemistry building.

U.N. peacekeeping forces have been proved effective in breaking the cycle of civil wars, but the blue helmets are deployed in only 38 percent of conflicts. Why? CU professor finds correlation between peacekeeping deployment and the economic interests of the United Nations’ Security Council members.

“When people think about Istanbul, they don’t necessarily think about Jewish life,” says Nan Goodman. The professor of English and director of the Program in Jewish Studies is starting to change that.

Love and marriage, as someone once crooned, may go together like a horse and carriage. But if the horse goes one way and the carriage another, the danger of suicide increases. That’s the key finding in an article by four ��ƷSM����ӰƬ researchers published in the most recent issue of the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.

When asked why they didn’t use contraception or took other contraceptive risks, women in a ��ƷSM����ӰƬ study overwhelmingly replied that they just weren’t thinking. What they meant by that varied widely, and the results have implications for how clinicians can help reduce risky behavior and consequent unintended pregnancies.