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Adolescents Less Likely to Start Smoking If They Feel Connected to Their Parents, Face Consequences for Lighting Up
May 2, 2011 — A study finds parents shouldn't let up when it comes to discouraging their kids from ... > full story -
Psychologists Find Unintentional Racial Biases May Affect Economic and Trust Decisions
April 25, 2011 — Psychologists have found that people may make economic and trust decisions based on unconscious or unintentional racial ... > full story -
Refusal Skills Help Minority Youths Combat Smoking, Study Finds
April 6, 2011 — The ability to refuse smoking is related to non-smoking in minority youths, a new study shows. Effective strategies to combat youth smoking include teaching refusal skills and training for responding ... > full story -
Ethnic Minorities Are 'Silent Sufferers' of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
March 21, 2011 — Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterized by unexplained and debilitating tiredness and is associated with headaches, disrupted sleep, muscle pain and difficulty in concentrating. New research ... > full story -
Psychologists Design 60-Minute Exercise That Raises GPAs of Minority Students
March 17, 2011 — What could you do for an hour in the first year of college that would improve minority students' grades over the next three years, reduce the racial achievement gap by half and, years later, make ... > full story -
Studies on Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Overlook Ethnic Groups, Study Shows
March 17, 2011 — Major clinical studies that evaluate prevention strategies for heart disease and stroke fail to consider a participant's ethnicity, a factor that can more than double the rate of death in some ... > full story -
Children of U.S. Immigrants More Apt Than Natives to Live With Both Parents
March 15, 2011 — Children of U.S. immigrants are more likely to live in households headed by two married parents than children of natives in their respective ethnic groups, according to ... > full story -
New Perspective Diminishes Racial Bias in Pain Treatment
March 7, 2011 — Years of research show black patients getting less treatment in the American health care system than their white counterparts, but a new study suggests that a quick dose of empathy helps close racial ... > full story -
Racial Identity Tied to Happiness, Study Finds
March 4, 2011 — African American people who identify more strongly with their racial identity are generally happier, according to a study by psychology ... > full story -
Constant Race-Based Discrimination Can Lead to 'Racial Battle Fatigue' for African-Americans
March 3, 2011 — Just as the constant pressure soldiers face on the battlefield can follow them home in the form of debilitating stress, African-Americans who face chronic exposure to racial discrimination may have ... > full story -
Am I Safe Here?: How People With HIV/AIDS Perceive Hidden Prejudices in Their Communities
March 3, 2011 — People in marginalized groups, such as the disabled or racial minorities, feel stigmatized -- condemned, feared or excluded -- when other people stigmatize them. That's obvious. But they can also ... > full story -
Share of Black Science and Engineering Degrees from Historically Black Colleges and Universities Declines in 2008
February 28, 2011 — More than 45 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, National Science Foundation statistics show minority academic institutions still enroll a substantial number of minority students, but the ... > full story
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