News tagged with moral convictions
Trust your gut? Study explores religion, morality and trust in authority
In a world filled with dogma, doctrine and discipline, it is accurate to say most of us strive to do what we believe is "right." These convictions and beliefs permeate every aspect of our lives, including education, ethics ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Study shows religion is a potent force for cooperation, conflict
Across history and cultures, religion increases trust within groups but also may increase conflict with other groups, according to an article in a special issue of Science.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 17, 2012 |
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Republicans and democrats less divided than commonly thought
Republicans and Democrats are less divided in their attitudes than popularly believed, according to new research. It is exactly those perceptions of polarization, however, that help drive political engagement, researchers ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 28, 2012 |
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11/11/11: Anthropologist debunks doomsday myths
University of Kansas anthropologist and Maya scholar John Hoopes and his students are watching predicted doomsday dates such as 11/11/11 and Dec. 21, 2012, with considerable skepticism.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Brain basis for crime?
Adrian Raine, a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor in the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry and Psychology, presented a collection of his work on neurocriminology that broadly attempts to connect criminal, psychopathic ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Forest plan hangs in balance at climate conference
(AP) -- Pedro Chuc May climbs a big zapote tree, braces himself against the trunk with a rope sling and uses his sharp machete to slash v-shaped cuts in the rough bark to let the tree's resin - the base for ...
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Study identifies four types of evangelicals in American leadership
A new Rice University study based on interviews with 360 American leaders who are evangelical Christians (including CEOs, presidents and chairs of large businesses and their equivalents in government and politics, nonprofits, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 25, 2010 |
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Thinking man's mystery: Stolen Descartes letter returned (Update)
A stolen letter written by 17th-century thinker Descartes and found in the United States was returned to France on Tuesday, ending a detective tale featuring a Google search and a thieving Italian count.
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Educational historian looks at origins of the culture wars
It did not take long for Binghamton University educational historian Adam Laats to look to the past for answers while teaching high school in Wisconsin.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2010 |
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fMRI scans used in murder trial sentencing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans have been used, possibly for the first time, in the sentencing phase of a murder trial in Chicago in the US.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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The court will now call its expert witness: the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Will advances in neuroscience make the justice system more accurate and unbiased? Or could brain-based testing wrongly condemn some and trample the civil liberties of others? The new field ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 20, 2009 |
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