Hand-holding couples may be protected from pain and stress, a study shows.

Russell Schutt, Ph. D, is the director of the Applied Sociology program and professor of Sociology at UMass Boston. Dr. Schutt is working on a variety of interesting and socially imperative research projects including work on examining health disparities ...

As African-American teenagers in a Boston conference room talk about their opinions of marriage, their comments reveal a dreary view of the institution.