Natalie Shoemaker
Contributing Writer
Natalie has been writing professionally for about 6 years. After graduating from Ithaca College with a degree in Feature Writing, she snagged a job at PCMag.com where she had the opportunity to review all the latest consumer gadgets. Since then she has become a writer for hire, freelancing for various websites. In her spare time, you may find her riding her motorcycle, reading YA novels, hiking, or playing video games. Follow her on Twitter: @nat_schumaker
When we think about future events in days, rather than years, we’re able to better connect with our future selves.
Self-promoters should avoid humblebragging, lest they want to come off as inauthentic and obnoxious.
Researchers suggest that loneliness may trigger a hormone in healthy women that causes them to eat more — even when they’re full.
Letting kids take control of their summer reading may help boost test scores and prevent the “summer slide.”
Researchers make a case for why you should go to the movies alone. They say you’ll have just as much fun as if you went with a group — don’t miss out on life just because you can’t find someone to go with you.
Babies as young as six months understand how to use a smartphone. But is there some risk in this kind of early media exposure?
A serial litterer who made a habit of tossing books out his car window the past few months has been identified and cited by police in Boulder, Colorado.
More than 200,000 children are hospitalized each year in the U.S. for playground-related injuries. What researchers want to know is how many of these disasters could be averted by parents putting down their smartphones?
Many authors have dwelled on the benefits and possible pitfalls of invisibility on the human mind. Researchers focused more on the former, finding fear of public speaking lessens when people feel they are invisible.
Hide this study from your parents. Recent research suggests that the connection between video games and enhancing cognitive abilities is “weak to nonexistent.”
Forums and their members get a bad rap. It isn’t the outdated, troll-happy online cesspool you think it is. It’s a place to find community and support. You may even walk away feeling like a more productive member of society.
Researchers have found that gazing into your pooch’s eyes can raise both the pet’s and owner’s levels of oxytocin — otherwise known as a social-bonding hormone.
Food-journaling apps are a great way to log your eating habits, but so many people stop using them in the first week. Why? Divided social support and calorie counters that favor fast food over a home-cooked meal.
The ability to send an emotion — a feeling — to someone a world away may not be a thing of the future anymore. Researchers have found they can stimulate different emotions by blowing air onto certain parts of your hand.
Does God give believers a mental health boost? Two psychologists argue that it’s just not so — atheists are just as emotionally stable as those with religion.
Can a website’s design help persuade readers of the page’s message? Researchers think so, and they say it’s all about how readers interact with the site.
Students may need to sleep on a lesson before they are able to fully comprehend and apply the new information they’ve learned.
How much does a free app cost users in memory, data usage, and battery life? Turns out the ads within those free apps can consume 16 percent more energy and 22 percent more memory, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Gain some ground before an interview by thinking about your best negotiating skill. Research has shown it helps boost performance.
Marathon runners tend to forget how painful their experience was months after the race, provided that they had positive feelings toward the accomplishment.
After sticking with a healthy regimen, you may think a cheat week might not do any harm after all the good months you’ve racked up. Nope.
There’s a new medical device that allows people to take their blood (almost) painlessly.
Eating more protein-rich foods can help balance a diet of carbs — to a point. Researchers reveal their findings after a long-term study, observing people’s eating behaviors and how it affects their weight.
Scientists come up empty-handed in their search for a “supercivilization,” but researchers remain hopeful.
Just looking at a sick person will set your immune system into overdrive — no Airborne necessary.
Researchers have found apples and green tea hold a chemical compound that may help block the signaling of certain processes involved in caner progression.
Popping a Tylenol may do more than just alleviate that headache you’ve been suffering through; it may also be a potent solution for numbing emotions.
“Human cruise control” may be the future of navigation, freeing us from latching our eyes at our smartphones for directions and, instead, concentrating on the journey.
Researchers have found that five-year-olds are not immune to the “bystander effect.” It turns out, in groups, the reason why kids don’t take to helping someone is because they don’t think it’s their responsibility.
When presented with our own mortality, we become more giving, and happier as a result.