I know exactly when my severe math anxiety began: with my third-grade teacher, Miss S. (I am afraid to write her full name because even if she is no longer among the living, her ghost will most certainly come roaring back and thrust more work sheets at me).

A common impairment with lifelong consequences turns out to be highly contagious between parent and child, a new study shows.

It is circle time at summer camp and nearly a dozen 5- and 6-year-olds are sitting cross-legged on a blue rug.

“Is it Wednesday or Friday?” counselor Stephanie Schwartz asks.

We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. Rachael Robnett runs UNLV’s Social Development Research Lab, where she studies why women and minorities are under-represented in science-related fields.

When Rachael Robnett started college at the University of Northern Iowa, she thought she was going to be a Spanish teacher.

The “idiot” study from last month’s British Medical Journal used data from the tongue-in-cheek ;Darwin Awards, which recognizes nominees who, “improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from the human race in an obviously stupid way.” So far, 87 percent of the award winners have been male.

A professor in Las Vegas is taking the mental health of athletes away from sports psychologists and developing a whole new approach.

Researchers Rachael Robnett, of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and Campbell Leaper, at the University of California at Santa Cruz, asked high school kids about their attitudes toward STEM courses. An adolescent's attitude correlated to those of his or her classmates.