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Whites More Likely To Misidentify Tools As Guns When Linked To Black Faces
October 20, 2004 — People are more likely to misidentify tools as guns when they are first linked to African Americans, at least under extreme time pressure, new research ... > full story -
Childhood Conduct Problems May Predict Depression Among Young Adults
May 12, 2004 — Preadolescents who reported high levels of conduct problems were nearly four times as likely to have experienced an episode of depression in early adulthood than were children who reported low rates ... > full story -
Readers' Memories Of Crime Stories Influenced By Racial Stereotypes
May 6, 2004 — If asked to imagine a criminal suspect, certain mental pictures come to mind for most people. According to a recent Penn State study concerning people's memory of news photographs, images that ... > full story -
Regardless Of Race, Pain Feels Pretty Much The Same; But Study Confirms Gender Differences
March 30, 2004 — A new study that measures pain sensitivities among Whites and African-Americans suggests assessment procedures may be to blame for reported racial differences in the amount of pain ... > full story -
Commonly-Held Belief Contributes To Rejection Of Lung Cancer Surgery
October 7, 2003 — Nearly 40 percent of patients believe that the exposure of lung cancer to air at the time of surgery promotes the spread of the cancer, according to a study published in today’s Annals of ... > full story -
"Mere Presence" Of A Black Face Can Lead People To Mistake Objects For Weapons More Often, Study Says
May 21, 2001 — Recent police shootings of unarmed blacks have spurred racial tensions and fueled a raging debate over such issues as racial profiling and harassment. While no one knows what lies behind a police ... > full story -
NYU/Yale Research Team Explores Neural Basis Of Racial Evaluation
September 13, 2000 — A team of researchers from NYU and Yale have published a study that uses fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to explore the role of the amygdala in the unconscious evaluation of racial ... > full story -
The Ins And Outs Of Facial Processing
August 25, 2000 — For human beings, our faces are our calling cards. They tell the world who we are and often how we are feeling. The youngest infants have a special affinity for faces, and the human brain devotes ... > full story -
Older People Are More Prejudiced And They Can't Help It
April 26, 2000 — Researchers at Ohio State University have found one explanation for why older adults tend to be more prejudiced than young people: they just can't help it. A new study suggests that as older ... > full story -
Roots Of Unconscious Prejudice Affect 90 To 95 Percent Of People, Psychologists Demonstrate
September 30, 1998 — The pervasiveness of prejudice, affecting 90 to 95 percent of people, was demonstrated today in a Seattle press conference at the University of Washington by psychologists who developed a new tool ... > full story -
African Americans And Hispanics At Higher Risk For Alzheimer's Disease
March 12, 1998 — Researchers from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons have discovered that African Americans and Hispanics have an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease whether or not they ... > full story -
Young African-Americans Run Higher Risk Of Stroke
February 11, 1998 — Black men under 45 are three to five times more likely to have a stroke than white men in the same age group, a University of Maryland neurology research team reported recently. And the risk of ... > full story
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