People perceive a person's competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person's clothing, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour by Princeton University. These judgments are made in ...
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Dec 9, 2019
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Emergency federal dollars given to the unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic bolstered health care spending as jobless rates skyrocketed, a new University of Michigan study found.
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Oct 12, 2021
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Poor parenting is not the reason for an increase in problem behaviour amongst teenagers, according to research led by Oxford University.
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Jul 31, 2009
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Many people try to make society change for the better. The real challenge is how to get good solutions to scale up for major change. New research suggests that social change may depend on the relationship between beneficial ...
Social Sciences
Apr 1, 2022
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(Phys.org)—We live in a world of extremes, where being fervently for or against an issue often becomes the dominant social ideology – until an opposing belief that is equally extreme emerges to challenge the first one, ...
Despite international commitments made by nearly all of the 193 United Nations (UN) member states, dozens of countries lack important legal protections against children doing work that could be harmful or interfere with their ...
Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2019
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A new paper by researchers at Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) and Penn's Annenberg School for Communication offers recommendations to ensure the ethical use of artificial intelligence resources such as ChatGPT ...
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Aug 17, 2023
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A new study from Western University suggests that the news media may take advantage of an existing uncertainty and unease around immigration policies and the treatment of immigrants and refugees to create a crisis mentality ...
Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2013
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New research, showing gendered school sports uniforms play a "major role" in high dropout rates of teenage girls in sport, has already broken boundaries to help remove rigid policies. This means that skirts no longer need ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2023
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James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning DNA scientist who lost his job in 2007 for expressing racist views, was stripped of several honorary titles Friday by the New York lab he once headed.
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