News tagged with minorities
All prejudice isn't created equal; whites distribute it unequally to minorities
The Declaration of Independence may proclaim that all men are created equal, but American whites tend to distribute their prejudice unequally toward certain members of minority groups, according to new research.
Feb 25, 2009 |
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Psychological headwind keeps women, minorities from sprinting ahead of their peers, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Let's say a white student and a black student both score 1020 on their SATs. They're performing right around the national average, so based on their scores it stands to reason they're both typical students ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 24, 2009 |
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I totally empathize with you ... sometimes: Effects of empathy on ethnic group interactions
Increased empathy toward minority group members is one way to reduce prejudice and promote more positive inter-group relationships. When individuals take on the perspective of someone from a different group, a number of processes ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Unrelated and mismatched cord blood transplantation can still help children with deadly conditions
An unrelated cord blood transplant, even from a mismatched donor, can be effective in treating children with a host of life-threatening diseases and disorders including cancer, sickle cell anemia, and other genetic diseases, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 13, 2009 |
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Minority health-care clinics separate but unequal
A study published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine may shed new light on why minority Americans have poorer health outcomes from chronic conditions such as hypertension, heart disease and diabetes.
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Study finds high level of medical mistrust among minority women impacts quality of health care
Nearly 70 percent of minority women agree that health-care organizations sometimes deceive or mislead patients, one of the key findings of a Michigan State University study that researchers say can prevent women from getting ...
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Swarm of Yellowstone earthquakes doesn't pose risk, scientists say
When you have 400 earthquakes on top of one of the largest supervolcanoes on Earth, people pay attention.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 07, 2009 |
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