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Regulating emotions during negative experiences may lessen troubling memories

September 20, 2023

Training strategies that teach depressed individuals how to better manage their negative emotions may not only help their mood but also their memory of difficult events, according to new research from Rice University.

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Hospital prices vary for those who call to ask, Rice report shows

September 19, 2023

Hospitals in the United States may quote vastly different prices for their services – depending on how you find that information, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine.

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Past participant Carolina Gonzalez returns to STaRT@Rice as a working professional

September 13, 2023

Back for its third year, the STaRT@Rice program (short for Statistical Training and Research Techniques at Rice) will be held on Oct. 6-9, 2023 at Rice University.

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New Rice memory research examines how we remember faces

September 13, 2023

The common struggle of remembering a face or a name gets more difficult as we age, and new research from Rice University aims to figure out why.

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Antidepressants may reduce negative memories while improving overall memory, according to Rice study

September 11, 2023

New research from Rice University finds that antidepressants may actually reduce negative memories in individuals suffering from depression while improving overall memory function.

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New NSF grant to fund study of how AI affects hiring process

September 6, 2023

Can artificial intelligence (AI) select job candidates as well — or better — than traditional methods? A new, four-year study from the National Science Foundation seeks to find out.

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Rice University political expert available to discuss how impeached Texas attorney general, ‘thorn in side of Biden Administration,’ hopes to avoid removal from office

September 5, 2023

As Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial beginsvtoday, Rice University political scientist Mark Jones is available to discuss how the state’s chief law enforcement officer hopes to avoid conviction and removal from office.

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Women are just as corrupt as men in Mexican politics

August 28, 2023

Women are just as corrupt as men in Mexican municipal politics, according to a new study from Rice University.

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Award-winning Rice economics instructor creates affordable and fun textbook for students

August 23, 2023

Rice economics instructor James “Jimmy” DeNicco has become known around campus for his straightforward and entertaining approach to teaching ECON 100, “Principles of Economics,” explaining complicated concepts using real-world examples like Texas barbecue, pop culture references and more.

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Rice’s Mikki Hebl honored with Academy of Management’s Advancing Women in Leadership Award

August 22, 2023

​​​​​​​Michelle “Mikki” Hebl , the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Professor of Psychological Sciences and professor in the Jones Graduate School of Business, is the 2023 recipient of the Advancing Women in Leadership Award from the Academy of Management (AOM).

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Varied regional culture may affect individual expression of religion in US

August 22, 2023

Religious expression in the workplace — from wearing symbols of one’s beliefs to discussing faith at work — varies from geographic location to location, with Christians more likely to express their faith in the South, Jews most likely in the Northeast and Muslims most likely to do so out West, according to a new paper from researchers at Rice University’s Boniuk Institute and its Religion and Public Life Program, Purdue University, West Virginia University and Wheaton College.

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Fall 2023 Research Relays to Open with 'Work and Society'

August 21, 2023

Fall 2023 Research Relays to Open with “Work and Society”

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Rice’s Jing Chen receives early career award from American Psychological Association

August 10, 2023

Jing Chen, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at Rice University specializing in human factors and human-computer interaction, has received the Earl Alluisi Early Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association (APA), the world’s largest association of psychologists.

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Price increases to blame for rising hospital emergency room costs

August 7, 2023

Price increases were the largest source of spending per visit in emergency rooms over the past decade in four of five states studied, according to a new report from researchers at Rice University and UTHealth Houston School of Public Health.

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Rice study: Children are usually the poorest members of refugee communities

August 4, 2023

Violent conflicts around the world have driven more people from their home countries than ever before. As these individuals and families seek safe havens, new research from Rice University has found that refugee children are up to three times more likely to be poor than adults – even within their own families.

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