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Psychiatric Disorders Greatly Underdiagnosed In Hospital Emergency Departments
February 24, 2005 — New research offers dramatic evidence of how psychiatric disorders are underdiagnosed in hospital emergency departments, affecting an increasing number of Americans who rely on such facilities for ... > full story -
New Study Suggests Race Fear Isn't Hard Wired
February 4, 2005 — If you've ever walked down a dark alley and seen a stranger approach, then you probably know that automatic vigilance - a signal from your brain making you more alert. And even if you consider ... > full story -
Authors Warn Of Inaccuracies Concerning Use Of Race In Health & Social Science Research
January 26, 2005 — New and sophisticated methods for studying the relationship between human genetic differences, the environment, health and behavior, all made possible by the completion of the Human Genome Project, ... > full story -
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
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