Negative social attitudes, such as racism and discrimination, damage the health of those who are targeted by triggering a cascade of aberrant biological responses, including abnormal gene activity. It is not surprising that ...
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Oct 17, 2019
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Cornell researchers have shown that data science and artificial intelligence tools can successfully identify when prosecutors question potential jurors differently, in an effort to prevent women and Black people from serving ...
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Jul 28, 2023
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All over the world, immigration has become a source of social and political conflict. But what are the roots of antipathy toward immigrants, and how might conflict between immigrant and native populations be dampened?
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Jul 29, 2019
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White workers' emotions about race and reactions to racial differences in the workplace are triggered by identity threat-induced culture shock, researchers suggest in a new study.
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Jan 31, 2024
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Athletes, musicians and actors who commit acts of domestic violence continue to face heightened scrutiny, and new research from the University of Maryland reveals that the news coverage of such cases is often racially biased.
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Jan 5, 2016
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The U.S. 'race gap' in the commission of violent crime has narrowed substantially, yet persists in many cities - with murder arrest rates for African Americans out-distancing those for whites - concludes a new 80-city study ...
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Mar 8, 2010
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A recently published nationwide study by two University of South Florida professors indicates that blacks are five times more likely and Latinos four times more likely to fear police brutality than whites.
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Jun 15, 2020
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A couple of weeks after the close of the National Football League's regular season, there is just one Black head coach and one Latino head coach left in the League—Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Ron Rivera ...
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Jan 24, 2022
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A study to be published in Sex Roles, published by Springer, offers an explanation for why women fear face-to-face crime more than men, despite being less likely to experience most crimes. The findings by Laurel Watson from ...
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Jan 14, 2015
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Some Black youth feel less safe when they visit predominantly white areas of their city, a new study in Columbus has found.
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Apr 10, 2024
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