News tagged with social status
The rich have more money but the poor are rich in heart: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world could one day be an economically equal place, if the lower-income population have anything to do with it. In an interesting yet disheartening series of socioeconomic experiments, led by a team of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Partner status influences women's interest in men
A study by Indiana University neuroscientist Heather Rupp found that a woman's partner status influenced her interest in the opposite sex.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 28, 2009 |
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Leadership success linked to social status
(PhysOrg.com) -- People tend to follow leaders they perceive as high-status individuals and typically reject the take-charge efforts of people considered lower-status or misfits, according to a research team that included ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Brain Dopamine Receptor Density Correlates with Social Status
People have typically viewed the benefits that accrue with social status primarily from the perspective of external rewards. A new paper in the February 1st issue of Biological Psychiatry suggests that there are internal reward ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Microsoft adds Facebook to Outlook
Microsoft added Facebook to Outlook on Tuesday, giving users of its popular email program the ability to view status updates, pictures and wall posts from their friends on the social network.
Jul 13, 2010 |
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New research links social stress to harmful fat deposits, heart disease
A new study done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that social stress could be an important precursor to heart disease by causing the body to deposit more fat in the abdominal cavity, speeding ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Underdogs Have More Motivation? Not So Fast, Study Says
(PhysOrg.com) -- Members of a group or team will work harder when they're competing against a group with lower status than when pitted against a more highly ranked group, according to a new study.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 08, 2010 |
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Docs warn about Facebook use and teen depression
(AP) -- Add "Facebook depression" to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors' group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site.
Mar 28, 2011 |
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LMK, IDK: Texting is writing, researcher says
(PhysOrg.com) -- The days of traditional college writing instruction are nearly over, contends a Michigan State University researcher who found that college students now rank texting as the No. 1 form of writing ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Adolescents involved with music do better in school
A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly reveals that music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on readin ...
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Childhood obesity linked to neighborhood social and economic status
Children in King County, Washington, are more likely to be obese if they live in socially disadvantaged neighborhoods. This is according to a team of researchers at Seattle Children's Research Institute, the ...
Jun 11, 2010 |
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'One-drop rule' appears to persist for biracial individuals
The centuries-old "one-drop rule" assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 09, 2010 |
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Facebook looks to cash in on user data
Julee Morrison has been obsessed with Bon Jovi since she was a teenager. So when paid ads for fan sites started popping up on the 41-year-old Salt Lake City blogger's Facebook page, she was thrilled. She described herself ...
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Young Indians in social network 'fatigue'
India's urban youth are suffering social-media "fatigue," prompting a number to delete their Facebook and other accounts, according to a new study.
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Boy-girl bullying in middle grades more common than previously thought
Much more cross-gender bullying - specifically, unpopular boys harassing popular girls - occurs in later elementary school grades than previously thought, meaning educators should take reports of harassment from popular girls ...
Dec 09, 2008 |
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