Search results for friendship diversity
Campus diversity important predictor of interracial friendships
Aug 27, 2008 |
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One of the hopes of having diverse campus environments is that the daily interaction with students from different backgrounds will promote interracial understanding and friendship. A new study in the journal Social Science Qu ...
Unrequited Love: How to Stay Friends
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Unrequited romantic feelings don't have to sink friendships, according to research by Michael Motley, a professor of communication at the University of California, Davis.
Research finds cross-race friendships can lower stress
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Conventional wisdom holds that diversity pays off in higher education. Now researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found scientific evidence that multiculturalism improves students' experiences ...
Be your best friend if you'll be mine: Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 03, 2009 |
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University of Pennsylvania psychologists studying the cognitive mechanisms behind human friendship have determined that how you rank your best friends is closely related to how you think your friends rank you. The results ...
Friendship is mainly about 'me, me and me'
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Young people mainly select their friends according to the image they have of another person, irrespective of whether the person concerned actually satisfies that image. Dutch researcher Maarten Selfhout has demonstrated that ...
Women are best at being buddies
Mar 07, 2007 |
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A four-year study by sociologists at The University of Manchester has found that women are much more likely than men to make deep and lasting friendships. The investigation into social networks by the University's Research Cen ...
UK anti-drinking campaign ads may be 'catastrophically misconceived'
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Some anti-drinking advertising campaigns may be “catastrophically misconceived” because they play on the entertaining ‘drinking stories’ that young people use to mark their social identity, say researchers who have just completed ...
A Sentiment for All Seasons: We Offer Help More Often Than Ask for It
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People do act as if it is better to give than receive, but perhaps not for purely altruistic reasons, Yale researchers report.
Personal relationships increase donations
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 22, 2008 |
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People tend to be more sympathetic to people suffering from the same misfortune as a friend. But friendship with a victim does not make people generally more sympathetic, according to the authors of a new study in the Journal ...
Roommate assignments key in increasing interracial friendships in college
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 28, 2009 |
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White students generally increased their number of interracial friendships during their first year of college, while black students showed a slight decrease, according to a study at one highly selective private university.
Ethnic identity expressed in clothing is good for adolescents' mental health
Apr 15, 2008 |
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Young people who dress according to the customs of their own ethnic group are less likely to have subsequent mental health problems than those who don't, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Both gender and friendship can influence adolescent alcohol use
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Adolescents who drink alcohol, smoke and/or use drugs tend to have peers who do the same. A new study that looked at other factors which may moderate the influence of peers has found that gender, and gender of friends, can ...
Workplace, community engagement key to interracial friendship
Dec 21, 2007 |
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People who are involved in community organizations and activities and who socialize with their co-workers are much more likely to have friends of another race than those who do not, according to a landmark study of interracial ...
Contrary to widely held beliefs, romance can last in long-term relationships, say researchers
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Romance does not have to fizzle out in long-term relationships and progress into a companionship/friendship-type love, a new study has found. Romantic love can last a lifetime and lead to happier, healthier relationships.
Binge drinking due to ‘copying’ behaviour
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 24, 2008 |
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The rise in binge drinking in the young is a “fashion phenomenon” where drinkers are copying their associates’ behaviour, new research has shown.
