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Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A recent study completed by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) discovered that females and male tend to stick to traditional views of marriage proposals. The team of investigators delved into the question on personal preferences for marriage traditions and found an overwhelming number of young adults, both males and females, stated that they preferred that the man in the relationship ask for the female’s...
He loves her, he loves her not. A new study led by Joshua Hart, assistant professor of psychology, suggests that men’s insecurities about relationships and conflicted views of women as romantic partners and rivals could lead some to adopt sexist attitudes about women. The study was recently published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, a peer-reviewed journal. Hart and his co-authors, Jacqueline Hung '11, a former student of Hart's, and psychology professors Peter Glick...
Project HOPE To Publish Bilingual Book to Educate Communities and Promote Disabled Rights in Haiti Millwood, VA (PRWEB) April 06, 2012 Global NGO Project HOPE is launching a new innovative book in Haiti that addresses the stigma and discrimination afflicting thousands of disabled Haitians every day and calls for greater tolerance of amputees on World Health Day 2012. Project HOPE, a global health education and humanitarian assistance organization, and its partners created the first free,...
WASHINGTON, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies examines the outcomes of Immigration and Custom's Enforcement's (ICE) Secure Communities program and how those outcomes have been misleadingly described in one widely-circulated study published by the Earl Warren Institute at the University of California, Berkeley Law School. The Center's report, second in a three-part series, uses the same database of actual case histories...
How communication can help catalyze public engagement and improve chemistry's image Breaking Bad, cable channel AMC's popular series chronicling the dark transformation of Walter White from suburban chemistry high school teacher to crystal meth master chef and criminal mastermind, makes chemistry entertaining for the average person through shocking story developments, including White using his chemistry expertise (poison, noxious gas, and acid) to eliminate rival meth slingers. But the...
Students are stigmatized for any number of reasons, from the clothes they wear to what model cell phone they clench in their hands. Now, in a new report, researchers from UCLA show that youths from a range of ethnic-minority backgrounds have an added burden to contend with: ethnicity-based stigmatization. Even elementary school–aged children are aware of such stigmatization and, like older youths, they feel more anxious about school as a result. In the current online edition of the...
Students are stigmatized for a variety of reasons, with youths from ethnic-minority backgrounds often feeling devalued in school. New research on young children from a range of backgrounds has found that even elementary school children are aware of such stigmatization and, like older youths, feel more anxious about school as a result. Children who are stigmatized are more likely to have less interest in school, yet ethnic-minority children in this study reported high interest in school in the...
Women harbor a fat-stigma even though their family and closest friends may not judge them as "fat," according to findings by Arizona State University social scientists. Those research results, published Aug. 17 in the journal Social Science & Medicine, have scientists questioning the weight of messages from sources outside one's social networks, especially those in mass media marketing."We found that women generally missed the mark when estimating what their friends and...
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...
Stop using racial profiling, says Professor William Press from the University of Texas at Austin. He claims that as well as being politically and ethically questionable, racial profiling does no better in helping law enforcement officials in their task of catching terrorists than standard uniform random sampling techniques. This is the topic of a paper publishing today in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association.Racial profiling...
