Search results for social 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 ...
Researchers show early life nurturing impacts later life relationships
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated that prairie voles may be a useful model in understanding the neurochemistry of social behavior. By influencing early social ...
Why should Iowa remain the first presidential primary?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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A new study finds that Iowa reflects the diversity of America more than most other U.S. states and is well-placed to deserve its status as the first presidential nomination primary. In particular, Iowa is particularly typical ...
How a simple mathematic formula is starting to explain the bizarre prevalence of altruism in society
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Why do humans cooperate in things as diverse as environment conservation or the creation of fairer societies, even when they don’t receive anything in exchange or, worst, they might even be penalized?
Diversity in primary schools promotes harmony
Jul 24, 2008 |
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For the first time, children as young as 5 have been shown to understand issues regarding integration and separation. The research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), confirms that the ethnic composition ...
Seeking the roots of collective cooperation
Jul 10, 2008 |
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No one enjoys paying taxes. Even so, we need taxes if we want our streets clean, a proper public health care system, an educated population or the maintenance of Earth’s climate within habitable boundaries. This is what scientists ...
U.S. Ranks 35th in 'Report Card' on World Social Progress; Sudden, Unexpected Shift Forward for Africa
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sweden and Denmark lead the world in social progress, Afghanistan is at the bottom of the list and the United States ranks 35th among 162 nations, tied with Ireland, Latvia and Hong Kong. Those are among ...
Alternative agricultural practices combine productivity and soil health
Jul 24, 2009 |
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The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted ...
Researchers find no loss of vegetable diversity in the 20th century; correct math error in 1983 study
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two University of Georgia scholars argue against the conventional wisdom that the 20th century was a disaster for vegetable crop diversity by showing that there was no overall loss of vegetable diversity ...
Public expresses need for government intervention to reduce socio-economic disparities in health
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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As Congress debates the public health care option, a recent study reveals greater public support for reducing health care disparities among socio-economic groups (i.e. by income or education) than among racial groups. The ...
Female mice can identify inbred males by their scent
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Apr 18, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that female mice avoid mating with inbred males by ‘sensing’ the diversity of a protein type in their urine.
Study: Diversity improves group decisions
Apr 10, 2006 |
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Tufts University scientists say they've determined diverse groups perform better than homogenous groups when it comes to decision making.
Social Responsibility Does Not Mitigate Negative Market Response Due to Crisis, New Study Finds
May 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Clients of the major accounting firm Arthur Anderson sustained negative stock-market returns following public announcement that the firm had shredded documents related to its infamous Enron audit in 2002. ...
Caste in the colony: How fate is determined between workers and queens
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Oct 21, 2008 |
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"The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms…the exploitation of one part of society by the other". – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
How to create less selfish societies?
Feb 06, 2009 |
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(GPEARI, Portugal) -- Cooperation, despite being now considered the third force of evolution, just behind mutation and natural selection, is difficult to explain in the context of an evolutionary process based on competition ...
