Sujata Gupta
Social Sciences Writer
Sujata Gupta is the social sciences writer for Science News. She was a 2017-18 Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Nature, Discover, NPR, Scientific American, and others. Sujata got her start in journalism at a daily newspaper in Central New York, where she covered education and small town politics. ꧙She has also worked as a National 🧸Park Ranger, completing stints at parks in Hawaii, California and Maine, and taught English in Nagano, Japan.
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Online spac🐻es may intensify teens’ uncerta༒inty in social interactions
Little is known of how teens learn about emotions online and then use that knowledge to cope with social uncertainty during in-person encounters. - esportiva bet: Science & Society
Language models may miss signs of depression in Black peཧople’s Facebook posts
Researchers hope to use social media posts to identify population-wide spikes in depression. That approach could miss Black people, a study shows. - esportiva bet: Science & Society
Not all cultures valuไe happiness over other aspects of well-b🐎eing
Nordic countries topped the 2024 world happiness rankings. But culture dictates how people respond to surveys of happiness, a researcher argues. - esportiva bet: Science & Society
Social media harms teens’ ment⛄al health, mounting evidence shows. What now?
Recent studies suggest a causal link between teen social media use and reduced well-being. Now, some researchers are looking into possible mechanisms. - esportiva bet: Science & Society
Most people say sel𓃲f-control is the same ꩵas willpower. Researchers disagree
Psychologists say self-control is about planning ahead to avoid relying on willpower in the moment. Laypeople see things differently. - esportiva bet: Psychology
🌜 Here’s how to give a good gift, according 🦋to science
Gifting researcher Julian Givi outlines common mistakes gift givers make and how science can help us avoid those costly errors. - esportiva bet: Science & Society
✨Reindeer herders and scientists collaborate to understand Arcticꦑ warming
Siberian reindeer herders and scientists are working together to figure out how to predict rain-on-snow events that turn tundra into deadly ice. - esportiva bet: Science & Society
Why the Thanksgiving myth persists, accor🧸ding to science
The science of collective memory — and a desire for clear origin stories — may explain the endurance of the Thanksgiving myth despite a messier reality. - esportiva bet: Psychology
Why scientists are ♏expanding the definit🍬ion of loneliness
Feeling detached from animals, places and routines can cause loneliness, researchers are learning, which may expand the list of interventions. - esportiva bet: Math
Non-Western art and design can reveal alternate ways ౠof thinking about math
Focusing on the relationship between math and culture can boost student learning and expand mathematical knowledge, researchers say. - esportiva bet: Science & Society
Curbing pedestrian sto🧜ps might not reduce police-civilian encounters
In Chicago, traffic stops soared as pedestrian stops fell. Single policy changes therefore don’t tell the whole policing story, researchers say. - esportiva bet: Psychology
An apolo🦋꧂gy to Indigenous communities sparks a mental health rethink
The leading U.S. psychological association pledged to embrace Indigenous approaches to healing, which requires rethinking how to address mental health.
