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Undecided voters may already have decided, study suggests
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Do "undecided" voters actually make their choices before they realize? That is a question University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and his colleagues are trying to answer.
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Implicit political attitudes can predict future voting behavior
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 25, 2008 |
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In many political elections, undecided voters come to a decision about who they will vote for only a few days before the vote, if not the very same day of the election. A new study in the journal Political Psychology reveal ...
Study suggests polls overestimate support for Obama, underestimate back for Clinton
Dec 18, 2007 |
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A new national study of voters who say they might vote in Democratic primaries and caucuses shows a striking disconnect between their explicit and implicit preferences, according to University of Washington researchers.
A Serious Question: Why Do We Laugh?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not surprisingly, Robert Lynch begins his research paper "It's Funny Because We Think It's True: Laughter is Augmented by Implicit Preferences" with a joke. Not his joke, but one taken from a ...
Study supports validity of test that indicates widespread unconscious bias
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 17, 2009 |
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In the decade since the Implicit Association Test was introduced, its most surprising and controversial finding is its indication that about 70 percent of those who took a version of the test that measures racial attitudes ...
The Obama effect: Researchers cite President's role in reducing racism
Feb 12, 2009 |
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President Obama spurred a dramatic change in the way whites think about African-Americans before he had even set foot in the Oval Office, according to a new study.
Citizens in 34 countries show implicit bias linking males more than females with science
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 22, 2009 |
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thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have - may have a powerful effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and performance, according to a new study published ...
Research Finds Photos More Useful Than Words for Memory Recall
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that pictures allow patients with very mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) to better recognize and identify a subject as compared to using ...
Brazilians judge facial beauty differently than North Americans
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Standard ideals of facial beauty and harmony may differ depending on geographic location, with a specific difference between North American beauty ideals and those of Brazilians.
Parents' sexuality influences adoption choices
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 03, 2009 |
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A couple's sexual orientation determines whether or not they prefer to adopt a boy or a girl. Gay men are more likely to have a gender preference for their adopted child whereas heterosexual men are the least likely. What's ...
Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes: Is speciation adaptive?
Nov 26, 2009 |
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Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the mechanisms of speciation. New ...
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