A new book, Black Star: African American Activism in the International Political Economy" studies the Black Star shipping line as an example of the political and economical ties among African-descended populations living in the Americas, the Caribbean and West Africa in the early 1920s.
While Wonder Woman may be regarded as a feminist icon, that image isn't upheld in the comic books through all seven decades of her existence, says a Dalhousie University researcher.
In The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene and the Revolutionary State, historian Tricia Starks examines the extensive collections of health care propaganda and records of medical monitoring institutions to reveal the centrality of public health campaigns in founding the revolutionary state.
Research has identified a possible link between the act of going to a religious worship service and a lessened risk of attempted suicide.
Indiana University experts in mental health, sports medicine and psychology discuss the impact of physical activity on mood for people with serious mental illness, such as bipolar disorder or major depression, the emotional stages often experienced during athletic injury recovery, and findings concerning prenatal exposure to nicotine and later behavioral problems.
It's impossible to understand the history of anti-Semitism, or of capitalism, without taking a non-ideological look at political theories on Jewish economics. That's the view of Jonathan Karp, a faculty member at Binghamton University and author of a new book, The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638-1848.
A multilevel pedestrian bridge system designed in part by a University of Illinois at Chicago urban planner allowed 3 million Muslims to complete the 2008 Hajj without the deadly stampedes of recent years.
University of Alberta study shows dangers of race-based scientific research American scientists used mustard gas on their soldiers for race-based experiments during the Second World War, a study by a University of Alberta professor has shown.
According to a new study published by a University of Illinois professor who studies race and the Internet, adolescents are increasingly experiencing both individual and vicarious discrimination online, which in turn triggers stress, depression and anxiety."¨
In popular legend, Lucrezia Borgia stands falsely accused of poisoning her second husband. Victor Hugo portrayed her in thinly veiled fiction as a tragic femme fatale. Buffalo Bill named his gun after her. Now, groundbreaking new research answers a centuries-old mystery of how the infamous duchess acquired her vast personal wealth during an economic downturn.
Temple historian predicts monumental significance for 44th presidential inaugural.
On the eve of Obama's inauguration, Temple experts weigh in on Michelle Obama, race relations, Camelot, hate crimes, media images, and white privilege.
A network of emotion-regulating brain regions implicated in the pathological worry that can grip patients with anxiety disorders may also be useful for predicting the benefits of treatment.
Joyful or sad smiles expressed after a competition are the same for blind and sighted athletes, says a new study, showing that certain facial expressions are innate and managed differently depending on the social situation.
With the box office success of the movie "Milk," we witness how attitudes have evolved around sexual orientation and politics over the years. In a new book about early Hollywood, we find the roots of today's pop culture in the behavior of yesteryear's movie stars.
In just a few months, five leaders of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime will go on trial before the U.N.-established war crimes Tribunal in Cambodia (known as the ECCC). Case Western Reserve University School of Law's globe-trotting professor Michael Scharf and two of his students recently traveled to Phnom Penh to help the ECCC prepare for the historic "Killing Fields Trials."
Nearly 50 years after one of the most controversial behavioral experiments in history, a social psychologist has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful electric shocks to others when urged on by an authority figure.
Much has been written about how Alfred's Hitchcock's leading ladies endured a tortured existence both on his movie sets and as characters portrayed in his films. But if you look beyond the cinematic terror"”cue pecking birds and crimson water circling the shower drain"”you might find how reliant he was on women for many critical aspects of his life's work, says USC Florence R. Scott Professor of English Tania Modleski.
The incomes of American families with children have become increasingly stratified since 1975, with income inequality increasing two-thirds during a 30-year period, according to findings published in the December issue of the peer-reviewed science journal American Sociological Review.
In everyday social exchanges, being mean to people has a lot more impact than being nice, research has shown. Feeling slighted can have a bigger difference on how a person responds than being the recipient of perceived generosity, even if the net value of the social transaction is the same, the research on reciprocity"”giving and taking"”explains.
In rural America, 70 percent of married mothers with children under six work for pay, finds a major new report spanning nearly 40 years of women's employment trends. The report, from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, is the first major study of women's employment trends to tease out differences between rural and urban women's work.
While the Kinsey Scale has become a fixture in sexuality textbooks and popular culture, the rating system and Alfred Kinsey's findings regarding male bisexuality, and cultural influences on male sexuality in general, have largely been overlooked by today's sex researchers. IU researchers collaborate with Paul Gebhard, an original member of Kinsey's research team, to discuss future bisexuality research.
UC San Diego students take final exams in the month of December and the cramming, testing jitters and coffee consumption can cause sleep deprivation (and lower test scores) for many of the university's 28,500 students. Sleep deprivation is one of the major health problems affecting students and is the second leading health impediment to academic success. Erratic schedules, caffeine consumption and anxiety all cause students to suffer from insomnia during finals week when sleep deprivation spikes among students, especially freshmen.
A building designed to recapture the past may bring nostalgia, but the end product may not capture current realities of a place, says Kingston Heath, a professor of historic preservation at the University of Oregon.
Stepping onto a scale after a calorie-filled holiday season isn't an activity many 21st-century Americans relish. But in the late 19th century, scales were all the rage at festive gatherings "” the 1800s' answer to Guitar Hero. "A family would think it fun to weigh themselves before and after a big holiday dinner to see how much they had gained," said Deborah I. Levine, Ph.D.
Bullying on the college campus is not a big issue for a majority of college freshmen recently surveyed at Kansas State University. The survey shows that those students who do think bullying is an issue are prepared to take action to stop or prevent it. The researchers were surprised to find how many students fingered one Web site, Juicy Campus, as a source of cyberbullying. The researchers will use the survey results to help K-12 schools and community groups thwart bullying before it comes to campus.
For months, individuals and families across the country have been feeling the brunt of the current economic crisis. Some have lost long-held jobs or watched retirement savings quickly dissolve. Many are still struggling to pay mortgages and other bills. Others are on the brink of homelessness.
Employees with high levels of job autonomy and control over their schedules are more likely to bring their work home with them, according to surprising new research out of the University of Toronto.
Fads have been a staple of American pop culture for decades, from spandex in the 1980s to skinny jeans today. But while going from fad to flop may seem like the result of fickle consumers, a new study suggests that this is exactly what should be expected for a highly efficient, rationally evolved animal. Findings could help marketers optimize advertising for the human mind.
In his newest volume of poetry, Michael Heffernan, creative writing professor at the University of Arkansas, often mixes the lofty and the wacky. The resulting "mildly irreverent" poems rise up from the sometimes-sad circumstances of life.
Bling, foreclosures, rising credit card debt, bank and auto bailouts, upside down mortgages and perhaps a mid-life crisis new Corvette---all symptoms of compulsive overspending.
Is race defined by appearance, or can a person also be colored by socioeconomic status? A new study finds that Americans who are unemployed, incarcerated or impoverished today are more likely to be classified and identified as black, by themselves or by others, regardless of how they were seen -- or self identified -- in the past.
More government involvement, subscription services and widespread education among solutions proposed by class of 10 Vanderbilt first-year college students "“ the group most targeted by the recording industry for prosecution for illegal downloading.
As President-elect Barack Obama continues to fill key cabinet positions from the ranks of Washington, D.C.-based public policy think tanks, a new book by longtime policy adviser Murray Weidenbaum examines how the nation's top think tanks came to play such critical roles in U.S. politics.
Many people may not know that this year marks the 400th anniversary of John Milton's birth (he was born on December 9th, 1608). "But Milton remains incredibly relevant to us today," says Shannon Miller, professor and chair of the English department at Temple University.
Happiness spreads through social networks like an emotional contagion, according to a study that looked at nearly 5,000 individuals over a period of 20 years. When an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person's happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends. The effect lasts for up to one year. Conversely, sadness does not spread through social networks as robustly as happiness.
There's been a fair bit of study on people who are addicted, but what about the people who love and care for the addicted? A Dalhousie researcher is finding out.
A joint study outlines a new theory - "trustee theory" - to explain the relationship between elected officials and government bureaucracies. The authors explain how this theory can be applied to explaining the current economic crisis.
As the documentary film "HAZE" hits college campuses throughout the country, it comes packaged with a secret weapon of sorts: a facilitator's guide written by Scott Walters, Ph.D., associate professor at The University of Texas School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus and author of "Talking with College Students about Alcohol." The guide is intended to encourage conversation and awareness about alcohol use on college campuses just as the annual December peak in alcohol consumption among college students arrives.
Alisa Lincoln, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of health sciences and sociology at Northeastern, recently completed one of the first studies of its kind on the role of literacy and mental health. While much attention has been focused on the role of literacy and health, little is known about the relationship between literacy and mental health.
Higher education demands one culprit in Americans' poor sleeping habits.
Drivers are far more distracted by talking on a cellular phone than by conversing with a passenger in an automobile, according to a new study by University of Utah psychologists. The study, which used a sophisticated driving simulator, found that when drivers talk on a cell phone, they drift out of their lanes and missed exits more frequently than drivers conversing with a passenger.
Drivers make more mistakes when talking on a cell phone than when talking to passengers, new research shows.
Gay men who are not considered sexually desirable are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior according to new research out of the University of Toronto. They may also develop psychological problems as a consequence of feeling undesirable.
No one needs to tell Disney, which brought the likes of Herbie the Love Bug and Lightning McQueen to the big screen, that cars have personality.
As the Iowa Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could clear the way for gay marriage in Iowa, a poll shows nearly sixty percent of voters in the state favor some type of legal recognition of same-sex relationships in Iowa. In the random, statewide poll of 586 voters, University of Iowa political scientists found that 28 percent of Iowans support same-sex marriage. Another 30 percent support civil unions, not gay marriage. About one in three oppose both.
An English professor credits Jamaican grandparents with nurturing her interest in the neglected histories of past generations, especially those of African and Caribbean descent, and preserving the stories for today's learners. Voices from Our America advances cross-cultural understanding in the United States, Caribbean and Latin America.
A new book by Suzanne Model, a sociologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, examines why West Indian immigrants enjoy more economic success than native-borne African Americans and finds that the key factor in this outcome is their self-selected immigrant status.
Some individuals would rather receive clear negative information than deal with ambiguity or uncertainty, according to new research out of the University of Toronto.
Race is a powerful determinant of how whites regard a neighborhood, according to a recent study at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Michigan.
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