Nearly half of adults (44 percent) reported having experienced some kind of discrimination since the start of the pandemic, find UCL researchers as part of the COVID-19 Social Study.
Social Sciences
Sep 10, 2021
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A new study out today provides the most compelling evidence to-date that China is deliberately reducing its population of Uyghurs—a Muslim minority ethnic group—through enforced birth control, forced displacement of citizens ...
Social Sciences
Aug 25, 2021
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New research published by the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research (I-SPHERE) based at Heriot-Watt University has found that the planning process in England is reinforcing racial inequality, despite having ...
Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2021
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Researchers have known from several lines of evidence that the ancient hominins known as the Denisovans interbred with modern humans in the distant past. Now researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on August ...
Evolution
Aug 12, 2021
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A study conducted in Hungarian schools showed that seating students next to each other boosted their tendency to become friends—both for pairs of similar students and pairs of students who differed in their educational ...
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2021
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Ethnicity often plays a prominent role in debates at every level of Dutch society. But what exactly is ethnicity, and is it as set in stone as we believe? Research conducted by Radboud University's Robbert Rademakers and ...
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2021
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The more an academic discipline is perceived to require raw talent or "brilliance" for success, the more both women and early-career academics feel professionally inadequate—like "impostors"—finds a new study of U.S. ...
Social Sciences
Aug 5, 2021
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Movies and television often show romance sparking when two strangers meet. Real-life couples, however, are far more likely to begin as friends. Two-thirds of romantic relationships start out platonically, a new study in Social ...
Social Sciences
Jul 12, 2021
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Ethnic minorities, the self-employed and low-income families in Britain suffered greater deprivation levels during the coronavirus pandemic despite "surprisingly positive" living standards figures, a report published on Thursday ...
Economics & Business
Jul 8, 2021
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Text messages and social media posts that contain yellow emojis are seen as having been written by white people, a study suggests.
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2021
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