STUDIES SHOW
Wild findings from a year of groundbreaking research.
Do Tattoos Make You Less Employable? Nope.
There’s an old stereotype: You’ll never get hired if you have visible tattoos. Turns out, tattoos are not a turnoff—at least not to customers. According to research from UH Associate Professor Enrica Ruggs published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, American views about tattoos have shifted. In her experiment, consumers viewed the same “job candidates” with and without temporary tattoos with no clear positive or negative skew. Additionally, tattooed employees were evaluated more positively and had just as many sales as their untattooed coworkers.
Dinner Time Interactions Influence Children’s Future Relationships With Food.
Chew on this: Gone are the days of the “clean plate club” and using desserts as bribes to trudge through servings of broccoli. UH research shows that these parental directions can lead to lifelong overeating. The researchers, who published their findings in the journal Appetite, found that tactics such as bringing a positive attitude to the table and being responsive in the moment tend to be more successful in guiding children on paths to healthy eating.
Video Games Do Not Cause Cognitive Setbacks in Children.
Good news for anxious parents: New research funded by the National Science Foundation finds no links between video gaming and cognitive ability, “regardless of how long the children played and what types of games they chose,” says UH Associate Professor Jie Zhang, one of the study’s researchers. The null finding was published in the Journal of Media Psychology in December 2022.
A potent physiological movement might be the solution to health issues caused by inactivity.
Sedentary lifestylers take heart. Though it’s only 1% of one’s body weight, the soleus muscle effectively elevates muscle metabolism for hours if activated correctly. Marc Hamilton, a biology and biochemistry professor at UH, made the disruptive discovery of the unassuming posterior leg muscle found in the calf, trademarking the movement the “soleus pushup”. His research, published in the journal iScience, suggests the exercise is more effective at sustaining an elevated oxidative metabolism to improve blood glucose regulation than intermittent fasting, weight loss and even exercise.
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