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As the Supreme Court considers whether to further limit sentences given to juveniles, new research by Stanford psychologists shows how an offender's race shifts people's support for severe punishment. More about PSYCHOLOGY & RACE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=psychology+racism 
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Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, served as lead researcher for a study that had some not so surprising results. According to his team’s findings, there is a significant positive correlation between prejudice, low intelligence, and social conservative ideology, reports LiveScience.
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A new tool has been developed to formally evaluate the effectiveness of anti-racism programs among Australian youth. ...
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Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals?
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(Medical Xpress) -- When communicating with white patients, black physicians may face greater challenges than their white counterparts, according to a University of South Carolina study.
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What accounts for the flexibility of views on this seemingly fundamental principle? “We take a functional perspective,” says Hehman. “Both groups seek to enhance their collective group identities.” For the majority, he explains, “the feeling is: the other group can come join us and give up their values. That preference benefits the majority by maintaining the status quo with no cost to them.” Meanwhile, “the minority wants to maintain its group-esteem and cultural identity. It’s threatening when the majority wants to assimilate them.”
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PARIS (AP) - French anti-racism groups dropped a lawsuit Thursday against Apple Inc. over an iPhone app called "Jew or not Jew?" after it was removed from circulation worldwide.
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Everyone's a little bit racist, posits the song from the musical Avenue Q. But it may not be your fault, according to research in the latest edition of the British Journal of Social Psychology.
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Research on the link between implicit race preference and brain activity could be used to prevent unintended consequences of race bias...
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Through a field experiment set in academia (with a sample of 6,548 professors), we found that decisions about distant-future events were more likely to generate discrimination against women and minorities (relative to Caucasian males) than were decisions about near-future events.
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After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, many proclaimed that the country had entered a post-racial era in which race was no longer an issue. However, a new large-scale study shows that racial attitudes have already played a substantial role in 2012, during the Republican primaries. They may play an even larger role in this year's presidential election.
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While theories about race, gender, and math ability among high school students have long been debated, a recent study found that math teachers are in fact, unjustifiably biased toward their white male students.
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All the evidence seems to suggest that people are getting increasingly violent and xenophobic. Or does it? Via Dimitris Agorastos
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Psychological scientist Margaret Beale Spencer says that children can teach us a lot about the society in which they’re raised. “Our children are always near us because we are a society, and what we put out there, kids report back. You ask the question, they’ll give you the answer.”
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Racial discrimination may be harmful to your health, according to new research from Rice University sociologists Jenifer Bratter and Bridget Gorman.
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We all know the stories when watching the news. The climate summit this is year in Duban is stalemate as usual, the financial crisis sparked by greed and egocentric minds is still going strong and countries fight for religion, oil and general mistrust creating physiological or real borders of concrete and barbed wire.
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For black American adults, perceived racism may cause mental health symptoms similar to trauma and could lead to some physical health disparities between blacks and other populations in the United States, according to a new study published by the...
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July 13, 2014 8:28 AM
I really think that racism is something that must be stopped in this world. From this article, i have learnt that Racism can lead to severe consequences such as the deterioration of mental and physical health. Racism against black Americans is one such example of the many scenes of racism that occurs all around the world. |
Automatically. immigrants already are put down by society and have to work twice as hard to prove themselves or to be successful.