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Family caregivers hiding harm by vulnerable relatives due to guilt and fears of state care
Some family caregivers are hiding physical and emotional harm by vulnerable relatives because they fear intervention by the state, experts have warned.
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Tech has changed. Dating? It's complicated
Moira Weigel began researching the history of dating in the early 2010s during a pivotal cultural moment in the U.S. The effects of the Great Recession were still deeply felt, mobile phone apps were taking off, and the internet ...
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Feb 14, 2025
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'Work flow' music designed to improve performance does just that
A small team of neuroscientists, psychologists and musicologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. reports that music created specifically to enhance work performance does just that. In their study, published ...

Divorce can be predicted by interactions between cultural and personal values, study finds
Divorce, the legal dissolution of marriage, can be driven by a variety of factors, ranging from changes in the economic status or health conditions of spouses to contrasting values. The end of a marriage can often be challenging ...

New study of effect of CCTV cameras on crime in Newark, NJ, highlights value of longer-term evaluations
Place-based crime-prevention interventions have been critiqued for the short duration of reductions in crime they produce. In a new study, researchers evaluated the long-term impacts of a large public closed-circuit television ...
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Feb 13, 2025
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Valentine's Day: The economic value of romantic tradition
We may never know if St. Valentine, a martyr beheaded for officiating the forbidden weddings of persecuted Christians, was keen on chocolate and flowers. But we do know that millions of people around the world will be using ...
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Feb 13, 2025
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The 'romantic' advertising tricks that give you unrealistic expectations of love
lThe run up to February 14 is a good time for selling certain products. And alongside the jewelry and flowers, advertisers also try to sell us something broader: a notion of what we should consider romantic.
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Feb 13, 2025
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The heart is symbol of love, but things weren't always like that
Valentine's Day is all about the hearts: heart-shaped chocolates, cards, balloons and even pizza. But the heart hasn't always just been a symbol of romance.
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Feb 13, 2025
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Removing babies is still harming First Nations families, almost two decades after the apology to Stolen Generations
Today marks 17 years since the apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples for the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families between the mid-1800s and 1970s.
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Feb 13, 2025
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Researchers investigate inherent bias in survey data of social network analysis
A team from India, Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland has looked at how to improve data analysis and to reduce the inherent bias in social network analysis. In an article published in the International Journal of Applied ...
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Feb 13, 2025
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What to do if your partner wants to speak to your baby in a language you don't understand
Finding out you and your partner are expecting a baby throws many discussions that might have once been hypothetical into stark relief. This certainly may be the case if your partner speaks another language beyond the one ...
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Feb 13, 2025
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The fairness filter: Progress skews perceptions of past discrimination
People in marginalized groups are less likely to accurately remember the extent of discrimination they have suffered in the past when conditions improve for other members of their groups—even if these conditions don't improve ...
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Feb 13, 2025
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Here's why some people still evade public transport fares—even when they're 50 cents
Public transport in Queensland now costs just 50 cents. Yet in the first six months of the trial, it's been revealed that thousands of commuters were fined for fare evasion.
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Feb 13, 2025
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Romance bookstores are booming worldwide—and fans are lining up for love
Once, if you wanted to buy romance novels, you had to know where to look. Some small outlets stocked paperback romances, as well as department stores like Big W in Australia and Walmart in the United States. So did some bookstore ...
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Feb 13, 2025
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How Valentine's Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and 'manufactured intimacy'
When we think of Valentine's Day, chubby Cupids, hearts and roses generally come to mind, not industrial processes like mass production and the division of labor. Yet the latter were essential to the holiday's history.
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Feb 13, 2025
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Why women read crime-romance novels
The thrilling, morally dubious world of crime fiction and the emotionally charged realm of romance novels may at first glance seem incompatible. But the blending of these two popular genres makes for compelling reading.
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Feb 13, 2025
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Research reveals how apartheid-era sexual violence has been 'collectively unremembered' by South African society
A generation of women in South Africa have collectively pushed from their memories apartheid-era sexual violence in a cultural process of "unremembering."
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Feb 13, 2025
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Flexible work arrangements may encourage childbearing in Singapore
Singapore's declining birth rate has been a recurring headline for many years now, sparking concern about the nation's demographic and economic future. Despite a host of measures, including baby bonuses and parental leave ...
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Feb 13, 2025
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The complicated question of how we determine who has an accent
How do you tell if someone has a particular accent? It might seem obvious: You hear someone pronounce words in a way that is different from "normal" and connect it to other people from a specific place.
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Feb 13, 2025
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Discrimination can arise random differences, such as a coin flip
Research from the University of Sydney has found people tend to discriminate in favor of individuals who show a similarity to them, even when the similarity arises from a random event like the flip of a coin.
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Feb 13, 2025
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