Social Sciences

News about UB’s social sciences programs, including anthropology, psychology and social work. (see all topics)

  • How to Ruin a Relationship
    8/21/03
    Squeezing the toothpaste from the wrong end, sneering at her cat or putting the toilet paper roll on backwards can irk your partner no end, even after decades together. But new or old relationships, says a prominent social psychologist from the University at Buffalo, are far more likely to be ruined by one partner's low self-esteem.
  • Social Anxiety Disorder Affects Up to 15 Percent of Children, Yet Often Goes Undiagnosed and Untreated
    7/29/03
    Five to 15 percent of children and adolescents in the United States suffer from a dangerous and disabling emotional disorder that poses a serious impediment to their social, educational and emotional development. It is social anxiety disorder (SAD), a condition that, according to a researcher at the University at Buffalo, is seldom researched, recognized or treated although it is one of the most prevalent and disabling mental disorders of childhood and adolescence.
  • Post-Graduate Certificates in Clinical Supervision, Clinical Practice with Children to be Offered by UB
    7/29/03
    The University at Buffalo School of Social Work will offer two new, intensive training programs for mental-health and human-services professionals during the 2003-04 academic year.
  • UB Students Will Go Door-To-Door to Evaluate Incidence of Autoimmune, Respiratory Diseases
    7/21/03
    The University at Buffalo and the New York State Department of Health are teaming up to conduct a study to investigate the incidence of autoimmune and respiratory diseases in the Bellevue neighborhood of the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga.
  • Conference to Address Latest Evidence-Based Treatments for Mental Illness in Children and Adolescents
    6/13/03
    The University at Buffalo and McMaster University of Ontario will present the third biennial Niagara Conference on Evidence-Based Treatments for Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health Problems from July 24-26 at the Queen's Landing Inn and Conference Resort, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.
  • Prevalence of Problem Gambling Among Youths Focus of Study
    6/13/03
    Researchers in the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions will be gauging the prevalence of problem gambling among adolescents and young adults in a study funded by a new four-year, $1,827,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
  • You Can "Star" in Virtual-Reality Dramas by UB Professor
    6/13/03
    If you've harbored dreams of starring in productions on stage or in the movies, Josephine R. Anstey has an offer that you can't refuse. In fact, she has two offers in the form of virtual, interactive dramas in which you would play the main protagonist.
  • Summer Institute for Advanced Social Work Practice and Addiction Studies to be Held at UB June 23 To July 28
    6/12/03
    The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo will sponsor the 18th annual Summer Institute for Advanced Social Work Practice and Addiction Studies from June 23 through July 28.
  • GIS Technology Helps Link Premenopausal Breast Cancer with Place of Birth, Residence at Time of Menarche
    6/10/03
    Geographers and epidemiologists from the University at Buffalo, using life-course data from a cohort of breast cancer patients and controls in Western New York and geographic information systems (GIS) technology, have shown that women who developed breast cancer before menopause tend to cluster based on where they were born and where they lived when they began menstruating.
  • Researchers Get $1.6 Million NIH Grant to Help End Medication Errors Caused by Similar-Sounding Drug Names
    6/2/03
    A psychology professor at the University at Buffalo is conducting a new study that will look at auditory perception of drug names and develop a software program that will address the problem of confusing prescription nomenclature, labeling, packaging and handwriting, a problem that the National Institute of Medicine estimates results in more than 7,000 fatalities a year.