Two important factors seem to explain black American adolescents' experiences with teacher-based racial discrimination – religiosity and racial pride, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in ...
Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2018
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By analyzing data originally stolen and released by Internet hackers, investigators have examined the characteristics of individuals who paid to engage in extramarital affairs using the online infidelity matchmaking site ...
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2016
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Social scientists have long accepted that religious faith tends to dwindle among college students. However, a new study shows that the highly educated's loss of faith varies among nations.
Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2015
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Some people are deeply religious and others not at all. Evolutionary psychologists are interested in determining the functions of religiosity in social life that lead to this diversity. Two camps within the discipline have ...
Social Sciences
Nov 4, 2013
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Research from the University of Warwick suggests the 19th Century 'protestant work ethic' could have given the economies of northern Europe a head start on their southern neighbours, and is still shaping popular northern ...
Social Sciences
Sep 29, 2011
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While religious service attendance has decreased for all white Americans since the early 1970s, the rate of decline has been more than twice as high for those without college degrees compared to those who graduated from college, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 21, 2011
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Churches will continue to attract older congregations as increasing life expectancy encourages people to put off involvement in religion, according to new research.
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2011
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A new University of Michigan study finds that Americans are much more likely to exaggerate their attendance at religious services than are people in many other countries.
Social Sciences
Dec 1, 2010
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Generation X, the set of Americans who came of age in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is often branded as a rules-rejecting, authority-questioning group.
Social Sciences
Aug 26, 2010
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Having a strong ethnic identity was linked with a lower risk of suicidal behaviors among Black college students in a recent study published in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development.
Education
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