Tag: society

Weapon Wielding White Males and Imperial Warmongers

16/12/2015

Homegrown terrorists perpetrate rampage after rampage. And yet again: Mainstream pundits ask why...

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Tuck In! Do Plus-Sized Models Promote Obesity?

12/12/2015

Plus-sized models in advertising linked to rising obesity rates: Study ...

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We Shall Overmeme: Why Slacktivists Make a Difference

11/12/2015

A new study of Twitter use during social protests finds that a critical periphery of 'slacktivists' greatly amplify a movement's message...

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Thanks! The Proven Way to Get The Right Kind of Attention

10/12/2015

Pay it forward: Small favors can yield large returns, study finds...

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Will Work For Pies: Providing Food Makes Better Workers

09/12/2015

Breaking bread with colleagues boosts productivity. The benefits of providing food at work...

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Does Texter’s Thumb Count? Worldwide Injuries Plummet in the Internet Era

08/12/2015

Global toll of injuries down by almost a third since 1990 ...

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SPARTAAAAAA!! What Viewing Violent Media does to Your Aggression Levels

07/12/2015

Exposure to violence makes you more likely to lie, cheat ...

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Four Ways Your Apps are Snooping on You

06/12/2015

UC Riverside study shows popular apps interact with risky websites...

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Heads Up! Ways to Recognise Phonebies and Digital Deadwalkers

05/12/2015

Distracted Walking: a Serious Issue for You, not Me...

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Fear and Fascism: Tools of the Trade

05/12/2015

To persist, the capitalist order demands submission to ruthless authority and must peddle fear of an alien other....

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Republic of London? Cities Outperform Countries

23/11/2015

The economic significance of cities increases while that of countries falls ...

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THC, Or Not THC? How Danes Grow Stronger Cannabis

22/11/2015

The concentration of the euphoriant THC in cannabis has tripled in the space of 20 years...

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Reduce Racism with this Seven Minute Miracle

21/11/2015

Seven minutes of meditation can reduce racial prejudice, study finds ...

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A Human Instinct for War? Sociologist Hugh Gusterson Explains

21/11/2015

Terrorism is a tactic. You usually fight war against a constituent. It’s hard to fight a war against a tactic. - Interview with Hugh Gusterson, sociologist ...

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You Thought You Were Anonymous?! What Your Video Gaming Reveals

20/11/2015

Video games can provide a wealth of useful population-level information on developmental, cognitive and psychological processes....

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Strive to Shirk, Why Hard Work Doesn’t Work

14/11/2015

No wonder governments like to advocate 'hard work'. The last thing they want is people with minds and lives of their own. Overworked people know their place. ...

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Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife Lately? Lower Testosterone, and Relationships

13/11/2015

Emotionally supportive relationships linked to lower testosterone ...

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Burn the Heretic! Hold the Phone! Religious People are Less Altruistic

07/11/2015

Religious upbringing associated with less altruism, study finds ...

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Does Shopping Local Make You Racist? (Consumer Ethnocentrism Explained)

05/11/2015

Do you buy local? Your consumer ethnocentrism may be showing ...

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Male/Female Brain Differences? More Like Hackney to Hoxton than Mars to Venus

02/11/2015

Male/female brain differences? Big data says not so much ...

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Smoother Skin, Brighter Eyes. Detox with Ceylon Gooseberry

18/10/2015

Exotic berry skin and pulp found to have high antioxidant levels ...

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Return of the Little Matchgirl: How Tory Cuts Will Affect Children’s Health

15/10/2015

Poor children will be hit hardest by government welfare cuts, warn experts ...

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Gasping for It! How Marijuana Affects the Sexual Morals of Students (!)

12/10/2015

People may judge risks, such as whether they will regret having sex or whether they should use a condom, differently when they are drunk or high...

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Loveletters Straight from the Smart(phone). Why email response takes SO LONG

09/10/2015

How the volume of incoming email affects behaviors of recipients and the length of time it takes them to reply to emails...

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Meet the Algorithm that Will Take Your Job: Machine Learning Advances

08/10/2015

A new way of doing machine learning that enables semantically related concepts to reinforce each other....

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We Can Predict that For You Wholesale? Murder Forecasting hits real life.

28/08/2015

New knowledge about murderers who commit what is called spontaneous domestic homicide...

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No Passion for Your Job? Don’t Worry, We Can Supply That.

24/08/2015

People who have not found their perfect fit in a career can take heart: There is more than one way to attain passion for work....

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Smartmouthed Kids get the Grades: Vocabulary & Academic Achievement

23/08/2015

Two-year-old children with larger oral vocabularies enter U.S. kindergarten classrooms better at reading and mathematics...

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A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet (Part two)

22/08/2015

Drew Michael walks us through more examples of our own miserable double-think....

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Does Having Racially Diverse Friends Boost Your Career? Oh Yes

21/08/2015

Employees with a racially diverse group of friends outside of work may actually perform better at their jobs, a new study suggests....

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