Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences

Mothers smoking crack cocaine during pregnancy and its lingering effects on their children are the focus of 20-plus years of ongoing research by Case Western Reserve University While the crack cocaine epidemic peaked in the late 1980s, its effects are still causing harm to an estimated 3 million tee...

Fear of confronting the tensions and conflicts brought on by existential concerns—the “big questions” of life—is linked with poorer mental health, including higher levels of depression, anxiety and difficulty regulating emotions, according to a new Case Western Reserve University study. Julie Exli...

Odds are long for any application for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship—only about 7 percent are awarded. Even longer are the odds that two professors from the same department each receive one of the prestigious grants in the same year. Unlikely as it may be, Erin Benay and M...

Study: Older men adhere closely to an idealized masculinity script that is incompatible with the realities of later life As men age, they continue to follow dominant ideas of masculinity learned as youth, leaving them unequipped for the assaults of old age, according to a new study. The mismatch be...

A Case Western Reserve University research project that has become a national model for helping reshape how sexual assaults are investigated and prosecuted—including cases borne from rape kits 20-plus years old—will share two new grants totaling $3 million from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). ...

Entitlement—a personality trait driven by exaggerated feelings of deservingness and superiority—may lead to chronic disappointment, unmet expectations and a habitual, self-reinforcing cycle of behavior with dire psychological and social costs, according to new research by Case Western Reserve Univer...

Testing backlogged sexual assault kits leads to the imprisonment of more rapists—preventing future sexual assaults and saving would-be victims and communities millions of dollars, according to a new analysis by Case Western Reserve University. Thanks to access granted by the Cuyahoga County Prosecu...

Henry Adams catalogues the first-ever retrospective of artist Dexter Davis Dexter Davis spends his days as a guard at the Cleveland Museum of Art, roaming its galleries and protecting prized works, including one of his own. As a Cleveland-based artist of national significance, Davis is the subject ...

Among elite athletes, practice accounts for a scant 1 percent of the difference in their performances—and starting sports at an early age does not necessarily provide athletes an upper hand—according to new research. Brooke Macnamara “While practice is necessary for elite athletes to reach a high...

New data challenges conventional wisdom about rape among scholars, advocates, police and prosecutors The testing of nearly 5,000 forgotten and backlogged rape kits in Cuyahoga County has led to investigations, indictments, prosecutions—and, already, more than 250 convictions. But besides bringing j...