...often ways that even younger men try to prove their heterosexuality," says Herek, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, who has, for years, studied this phenomenon and how it plays out in the gay community.That is not...

...said Jeffrey Mount, a levee management specialist and founder of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis. "We're in a never-ending cycle of flood and rebuild."

Midpay jobs aren't coming back from the Great Recession, partly because jobs in the middle are the most vulnerable to computer technology. That shortfall has helped prevent the total jobs lost from being regained.

...was traumatizing. Today, only 2 percent of Americans work on farms.Peter Lindert, an economist at the University of California-Davis, says computers are more disruptive than earlier innovations because they are "general-purpose technologies...

Those that study the neurobiology of social bonding in humans and in some animals say those areas of attachment and affection share many of the same areas of the brain and the same chemical messengers as drug addiction.

Somehow these universities managed not only to survive, but thrive.

...Stanford University (in Stanford, Calif.), University of California-Berkeley (in Berkeley, Calif.), University of California-Davis (in Davis, Calif.), University of Texas at Austin (in Austin, Texas), University of Chicago (in...

...long term could have the opposite effect.Dr. Karen L. Bales, the vice chairwoman of psychology at the University of California-Davis, has been studying human bonding behavior and the science behind it using close animal models, such as...

...some recent scientific studies have shown that the animals can affect literacy.In a 2010 study by the University of California Davis Veterinary Medicine Extension, third-grade pupils who read aloud to dogs once a week for 10 weeks improved...

...that might be where the paternal change starts, said Bales, an associate professor of psychology at the University of California-Davis and the unit leader for Brain, Mind and Behavior at the California National Primate Research Center. Two important...