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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Individuals who are victimized -- especially in childhood -- likely to abuse alcohol and other drugs
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds strong associations between victims' experiences -- such as unwanted sexual activity, neglect and physical violence -- and substance use disorders.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Children living in areas where homicides committed have lower reading, verbal test scores
Children living in areas where homicides are committed have lower reading and verbal test scores, a study by New York University Sociology Professor Patrick Sharkey shows. The research, which appears in the latest issue of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 14, 2010 |
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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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Stress during pregnancy may increase offspring's risk of asthma
Stress during pregnancy may raise the risk of asthma in offspring, according to researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The researchers investigated differences in immune function ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Male college students also victims of violence at girlfriends' hands
Thinking about a typical victim of college dating violence, you're probably imagining her, not him.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2010 |
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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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Australian government to introduce Internet filter
(AP) -- Australia plans to introduce an Internet filtering system to block obscene and crime-linked Web sites despite concerns it will curtail freedoms and won't completely work.
Dec 15, 2009 |
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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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