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Women Speak Less When They're Outnumbered
September 18, 2012 — Scholars examined whether women speak less than men when a group collaborates to solve a problem. In most groups that they studied, the time that women spoke was significantly less than their ... > full story -
Your Body Doesn't Lie: People Ignore Political Ads of Candidates They Oppose
September 17, 2012 — A recent study examined people's bodily responses while watching presidential campaign ads -- and discovered another way that people avoid political information that challenges their ... > full story -
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U.S. Cities Still Cutting Jobs and Infrastructure, Expert Finds
September 17, 2012 — For the sixth straight year, city revenues around the United States dropped in 2011, as costs of health care, pensions and infrastructure rose, says a public administration and infrastructure ... > full story -
New Photo ID Laws May Impact Elections, Hurt Minority Turnout
September 12, 2012 — Election turnout among young people of color, including African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans, may drop by nearly 700,000 voters in states with new photo ID laws, a decline that could ... > full story -
Facebook Boosts Voter Turnout: 61-Million-Person Experiment Demonstrates Voting Can Be Influenced by Social Networks
September 12, 2012 — A 61-million-person experiment conducted on Facebook during the U.S. elections in 2010 demonstrates (for the first time, the authors believe) that important real-world behaviors like voting can be ... > full story -
Social Psychologists Espouse Tolerance and Diversity: Do They Walk the Walk?
September 6, 2012 — Periodically, someone will make the observation that there is a lack of political diversity among psychological scientists; a discussion about what should be done inevitably ensues. The notion of a ... > full story -
Moderate Voices Muted in Political News
September 6, 2012 — While commentators and scholars argue that political groups have become more polarized in the US, a new study finds that moderate political groups are not as well covered in newspaper articles as ... > full story -
Black Women Face More Violence Under 'Prison Nation', Book Says
September 4, 2012 — Black women in poor neighborhoods have faced increasing violence because public policy has focused on unconditional punishment, not prevention, according to a new book by a public policy ... > full story -
Biodiversity Conservation Depends on Scale: Lessons from the Science–policy Dialogue
August 30, 2012 — A new article examines the mismatches between the scales at which ecological processes take place and the levels at which policy decisions and management interventions are made. Various societal ... > full story -
Twitter Data Crunching: The New Crystal Ball
August 29, 2012 — Scientists have demonstrated that the elimination of contestants in TV talent shows based on public voting, such as American Idol, can be anticipated. They unveiled the predictive power of ... > full story
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