Kinsey Institute

With privacy concerns addressed, Indiana University has re-released the free app Kinsey Reporter, a global mobile survey platform for collecting and reporting anonymous data about sexual and other intimate behaviors.
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Indiana University faculty members and graduate students will take part in the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, taking place Feb. 14 to 18 in at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.
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American men and women rated sex as highly arousing and pleasurable regardless of whether condoms and/or lubricants were used, according to a nationally representative study led by Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington researchers and published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
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IU Health and Wellness includes insights about the controversial issue of whether the NFL ignored the dangers of concussions. Also, in time for Valentine's Day, IU experts discuss hookup and (non)dating culture on college campuses and how finding a mate has much in common with finding a job.
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Following the birth of a child, new mothers may have an altered perception of stresses around them, showing less interest in threats unrelated to the baby. This change to the neuroendocrine circuitry could help the mothers adapt to the additional stress often accompanying newborns, say researchers from Indiana University's Kinsey Institute and the University of Zurich.
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Indiana University researchers in public health, law, informatics/computing, sociology and other fields are participating in the American Public Health Association meeting in San Francisco. This release discusses findings involving access to fresh foods; sex and in-vitro fertilization; Hoosiers' support of workplace smoking bans; childhood obesity and schools; a student-developed mobile health app; and an assessment of parks in Indianapolis.
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