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Houstonians launch a new chapter of The Walk for Mental Health to be held at Stude Park on Saturday, October 15, 2011. Spring, TX (PRWEB) March 6, 2011 Steve Curran, Founder of The Walk and Houston Walk President, Patrick McIlvain joined the Board for a kick-off celebration and announced October 15, 2011 as the date of the First Annual Houston Walk for Mental Health to be held in Stude Park. Author and Board member, Susan Parker was also on hand to share her story. "At forty one, my...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The LETS Educational Foundation continues to implement innovative fundraising events to help raise awareness and funds that empower youth to eradicate the stigma of mental illness. LETS will hold their First Annual Benefit & Silent Auction at the Coupa Cafe at 419 North Canon Drive in Beverly Hills Thursday evening, November 4 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The evening will include performances by a youth jazz band and awards...

With racism still prevalent in the 21st century, taking about the color of someone's skin -- even if it's your own -- can be a sensitive subject.  A recent study looks at how African-Americans and Caucasians identify with their own racial group, and shows that you may not be able to truthfully say how you feel about your own race.Contemporary racism is not conscious, and it is not accompanied by dislike, so it gets expressed in indirect, subtle ways.  That "stealth"...

A new study from the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis looks at how much African Americans and whites favor or prefer their own racial group over the other, how much they identify with their own racial group, and how positively they feel about themselves.The work, by Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in the School of Science at IUPUI, looked at both consciously controllable sentiments and gut feelings about social stigma and...

PETALUMA, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- BIAS, Inc. today released SoundSaver - a new software solution for Mac and Windows computing platforms that greatly streamlines the process of converting and restoring LPs and tapes. SoundSaver is easy enough for beginners to use, while delivering professional results with minimal effort and little expense. "For many, the desire to convert old records and tapes is strong, but the patience for learning is limited. SoundSaver simplifies the process...

Confronting someone who makes a prejudiced remark can be a good thing"”but not everyone does it. Researchers at Stanford University studied how and when targets of bias will speak up, and found that they're more likely to do so if they hold a particular belief: that people's personalities can change.In one experiment, students (who were all ethnic minorities and/or women) were told they were going to discuss college admissions with another Stanford student over instant message. (The other...

Tufts study finds white characters on popular shows elicit more positive responsesSubtle patterns of nonverbal behavior that appear on popular television programs influence racial bias among viewers, according to research from Tufts University to appear in the December 18, 2009, issue of the journal Science."Today, racial bias is often revealed via more subtle means than outright racial slurs," said first author Max Weisbuch, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the psychology department...

People with potentially 'stigmatizing' medical conditions are just as likely as those with less stigmatizing illnesses to allow their personal information to be used for health research. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Medical Ethics, found that the purpose of the research and the type of information to be collected were more important in determining patients' consent choices. In particular, they were very wary of allowing their personal information to be put to...

Teens suffering with depression may forego treatment due to concern about the stigma connected to the disorder, a new study implies.368 teens with and without depression were questioned, and researchers noted that those with the disease attached a social stigma to depression and were concerned over their families' response to the reason they did not confirm their illness and seek treatment.The study also noted that teens with those concerns were less likely to start counseling six months...

U.S. researchers suggest that people who share some kind of identity with a group automatically feel positively toward them, regardless of race. Study co-author Jay Van Bavel, a post-doctoral fellow in psychology at Ohio State University in Columbus and colleagues said white people don't show hints of unconscious bias against blacks who belong to the same group as they, but this lack of bias only applied to black people in their group. Most white people in the study still showed evidence of...