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Ethnic pride may boost African-American teens' mental health

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Most adolescents who belong to an ethnic minority group wrestle not only with their self-esteem (like most teens), but also with identity issues unique to their ethnic group, such as dealing with social stigma. A new study ...


Ethnic pride key to black teen mental health

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Ethnic pride may be as important as self-esteem to the mental health of young African-American adolescents, according to a new study in the Nov/Dec issue of the journal Child Development.


Emotions an overlooked key to whistle-blowing, study says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A gut-level connection with workers may be the key to encouraging whistle-blowing that could chip away at an estimated $652 billion lost to fraud annually by U.S. businesses, an ongoing University of Illinois study suggests.


What's eating the breadwinners?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Control, independence, ambition, pressure, worry, guilt and resentment are all experienced by female breadwinners, according to Dr. Rebecca Meisenbach from the University of Missouri in Columbia, USA. Dr. Meisenbach explored ...


NIST develops experimental validation tool for cell phone forensics

Technology / Software

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Viewers of TV dramas don't focus on the technology behind how a forensics crime team tracks a terrorist or drug ring using cell phone data, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology do. NIST researchers ...


Researchers discover antibody receptor identity, propose renaming immune-system gene

Researchers discover antibody receptor identity, propose renaming immune-system gene

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have uncovered the genetic identity of a cellular receptor for the immune system's first-response antibody, a discovery that sheds new light on ...


Study: Race, class and gender shape religion's effect on American voters

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socio-economic class and gender, reports a new Cornell study.


School textbooks have political purpose, finds study

School textbooks have political purpose, finds study

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The simple school textbook is used by states to mould loyal citizens, according to a new study.


Trust Linux!

Trust Linux!

Technology / Software

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive ...


Facebook profiles capture true personality, according to new psychology research

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas ...



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