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Discrimination Against Blacks Linked To Dehumanization, Study Finds
February 7, 2008 — Crude historical depictions of African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream US culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State ... > full story -
Trust Between Doctors And Patients Is Culprit In Efforts To Cross Racial Divide In Medical Research
January 14, 2008 — More than three decades after the shutdown of the notorious Tuskegee study, a team of Johns Hopkins physicians has found that Tuskegee's legacy of blacks' mistrust of physicians and deep-seated fear ... > full story -
Voter I.D. Requirements Reduce Political Participation, Study Finds
January 7, 2008 — A new report released by Brown University shows that requiring voters to present identification at the polls leads to lower levels of political participation. The research also suggests that voter ... > full story -
Student Facebook, MySpace Use Predicted By Race, Ethnicity, Education
November 19, 2007 — A study finds student use of social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace can be predicted by race, ethnicity and parent education, challenging popular notions of the democratic nature of online ... > full story -
Older Children More Likely To Develop Vision Disorders, Study Suggests
November 15, 2007 — In a study of more than 6,000 Los Angeles-area children -- the largest study of its kind -- researchers found that both strabismus (commonly known as cross-eyed or wall-eyed) and amblyopia (often ... > full story -
Latinos And African-Americans Live Longer With Alzheimer's Disease
November 14, 2007 — Latinos and African-Americans with Alzheimer's disease live longer than white people who have the disease, according to a new study. The findings were the same even after researchers adjusted for ... > full story -
Lower Response Rates To Antidepressants Found With African-Americans, Latinos
November 13, 2007 — Drawing from data in the nation's largest real-world study of treatment-resistant depression, scientists report that African-Americans and Latinos didn't respond as well as whites to medication for ... > full story -
Heart Health Affected By Past Discrimination And Personality, Study Shows
November 8, 2007 — People who previously experienced discrimination --- especially optimistic and trusting people -- suffer larger jumps in blood pressure when performing a stressful task such as talking about a ... > full story -
Benefits Of Online Interaction For Teens Outweigh Danger, Professor Says
November 6, 2007 — Media reports warn of online predators, hate groups and other 'digital dangers' lurking in online social spaces, and those dangers are not to be taken lightly, says one educational psychology ... > full story -
Ethnic Differences In Sleep Quality And Blood Pressure
October 29, 2007 — Sleep quality may help account for ethnic differences in blood pressure dipping. In the United States, African Americans have higher blood pressure and are at greater risk of hypertension than ... > full story
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