News tagged with violence
Research finds the hormone of trust has limits
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxytocin is a hormone produced by the hypothalamus in the brain, and has been shown to make people trust each other more and promote feelings of love. But this hormone has now been found to ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Study: Social media and the Internet allowed young Arab women to play a central role in the Arab Spring
Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 22, 2012 |
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Fighting violent gang crime with math
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA mathematicians working with the Los Angeles Police Department to analyze crime patterns have designed a mathematical algorithm to identify street gangs involved in unsolved violent crimes. Their research ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Bombings, beheadings? Stats show a peaceful world
It seems as if violence is everywhere, but it's really on the run.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 22, 2011 |
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Facebook users get graphic images in spam attack
Facebook said Tuesday that a "coordinated spam attack" was responsible for graphic images appearing in the news feeds of some members of the world's largest social network.
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Research group finds creating boundaries key to reducing ethnic violence
(PhysOrg.com) -- History is filled with examples of ethnic violence, the type that erupts when people with differing cultures attempt to live side by side. The Middle East comes to mind, as does Northern Ireland ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Parents blame child sex abuse victims more if perpetrator is another youth, research shows
Parents are much more likely to blame and doubt their children when their child has been sexually abused by another adolescent instead of an adult, according to new research from the Crimes against Children Research Center ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 07, 2012 |
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To catch a speeding bullet
In 1992, East Palo Alto, a city of 24,000 on the San Francisco Peninsula, logged the highest homicide rate in the nation per capita. Gun violence and celebratory gunfire plagued citizens and police.
Aug 02, 2011 |
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Humans not the only ones that pass down abusive behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in The Auk, researchers claim they have found evidence that humans are not the only species where child abuse is a socially transmitted behavior.
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Violence doesn't add to children's enjoyment of TV shows, movies: study
Despite growing concern about the effects of media violence on children, violent television shows and movies continue to be produced and marketed to them. An Indiana University research study concludes that violence doesn't ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 24, 2011 |
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Empathy and violence have similar circuits in the brain
Researchers from the University of Valencia, Spain, have resumed the brain structures involved with empathy, in other words the ability to put oneself in another person's position, and carried out a scientific ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Sexual offenses between inmates occur less often in states that allow conjugal visitation
Could widespread conjugal visitation reduce sexual offending in prisons? It's a possibility, according to Stewart D'Alessio and his team from Florida International University in the US. Their work shows that in states where ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Video games depict religion as violent, problematized, study shows
In the past few years, the video game industry has grown from a niche market into a major part of mainstream media. This increase in popularity and use of technology has allowed video game developers to insert more detail ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Abusive men likely to repeat violence if attraction to women is superficial
(PhysOrg.com) -- Abusive men who select partners mainly based on appearance are likely to be violent again after completing an abuser intervention program, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2011 |
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Might not be a tomorrow: Youth anticipate early death
As Atlanta officials aim to tackle the city's safety problems this year, some of their toughest criminals to stop maybe young offenders whose desires to commit crimes are being fueled by an anticipation of dying early.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Violence
Violence is the expression of physical force against self or other, compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt. Variant uses of the term refer to the destruction of non-living objects (see property damage). Worldwide, violence is used as a tool of manipulation and also is an area of concern for law and culture which take attempts to suppress and stop it. The word violence covers a broad spectrum. It can vary from between a physical altercation between two beings where a slight injury may be the outcome to war and genocide where millions may die as a result.
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