Social Sciences news
Foot binding and a biological approach to the study of Chinese culture
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Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Exaptation is a familiar concept to evolutionary biologists. It's the basic idea explaining that a trait can evolve because it starts serving a different function. Think of birds: at first, the most important ...
Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'
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Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing ...
Research finds happiest US States match a million Americans' own happiness states
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Dec 17, 2009 |
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New research by the UK's University of Warwick and Hamilton College in the US into the happiness levels of a million individual US citizens have revealed their personal happiness levels closely correlate ...
Couples who do the dishes together stay happier
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Dec 15, 2009 |
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A new study published by The University of Western Ontario reveals that couples who share the responsibility for paid and unpaid work report higher average measures of happiness and life satisfaction than those in other family ...
Teenagers use violence to boost their social standing
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Dec 22, 2009 |
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A new study looks in depth at the social relationships between male and female teenagers, relational violence, and psycho-social adjustment factors such as loneliness, self-esteem and satisfaction with life. ...
Of girls and geeks: Environment may be why women don't like computer science
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In real estate, it's location, location, location. And when it comes to why girls and women shy away from careers in computer science, a key reason is environment, environment, environment.
Efforts to save endangered languages
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There are an estimated 6,500 languages in the world, with around fifty percent of them endangered and likely to cease to exist by 2100, but efforts are now being made to save them from extinction.
UCSD Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers," released today by the University of ...
Moral dilemma scenarios prone to biases
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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Picture the following hypothetical scenario: A trolley is headed toward five helpless victims. The trolley can be redirected so that only one person's life is at stake. Psychologists and philosophers have been using moral ...
Why Things Become Unpopular
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Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Why is everybody suddenly wearing those new sandals and listening to that new band? It's so trendy!" A recent study has investigated this sentiment in order to understand why some cultural ...
UNL research aims to understand homelessness among women
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Dec 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women make up nearly one-third of the homeless population in the United States. Yet little is known about how they become homeless or how they live. University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Les Whitbeck ...
New study finds gender divide in children's use of cell phone features (w/ Video)
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Dec 17, 2009 |
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It's a given that many children will ask their parents for cell phones this Christmas. Now, a recent study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) sociologist Shelia Cotten, Ph.D., finds that the way the kids will use ...
Study finds orphanages are viable options for some children
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Dec 18, 2009 |
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A Duke University study of more than 3,000 orphaned and abandoned children in five Asian and African countries has found that children in institutional orphanages fare as well or better than those who live in the community.
Are the effects of pornography negligible?
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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A Université de Montréal researcher, funded by the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Family Violence and Violence Against Women, has launched a new study to examine the effects of pornography on men. "We ...
About 25 percent of Arabs in Greater Detroit reported abuse post Sept. 11
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Dec 17, 2009 |
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One quarter of Detroit-area Arab Americans reported personal or familial abuse because of race, ethnicity or religion since 9/11, leading to higher odds of adverse health effects, according to a new University of Michigan ...
