The increasingly common habit is bad for multiple systems in our body.

When teens see risk behavior such as drinking, smoking or drug use in movies or series, they sometimes find it difficult to define whether it's realistic or not. They recognize stereotypes but cannot ...

A new study found that prolonged sitting and other sedentary behaviors may raise the risk of various cancers, including ...

"Experimental and risk taking behaviors are an inherent part of adolescence," they write. "However, as safeguards for a digital world are still evolving, precaution across academic, governmental, ...

Between 1999–2021, U.S. adolescents steadily desisted from risky behaviors such as substance use and violence, and from reporting a combination of both risky behaviors and mental health symptoms. Yet ...

Recent research has investigated perceptions of control over different causes of death, and their influence on health behaviors. Cancer and avoidable deaths The Office for National Statistics’ recent ...

A study published in the BMJ journal Gut found that irritable bowel syndrome (otherwise known as IBS) risk could be cut by up to 42 percent if a participant adhered to three to five behaviors that ...

A poster that was presented in the Tenth University Research Day at the Catholic University of America in 2025. The term risk-taking carries inherent negative associations because of the potential for ...

Misbehavior is common among children. However, repeated and persistent defiance, displays of aggression, hostility, and destructive tendencies may be signs of childhood antisocial behavior. Many ...