Social Science posts
- September 2, 2010
- 12:55 PM
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The Science of Sexism: Primate Behavior and the Culture of Sexual Coercion
by Eric Michael Johnson in The Primate Diaries in Exile
The latest stop in the #PDEx tour is being hosted by The Intersection at Discover magazine.Despite the advances our society has made for women’s rights and sexual equality during the last century this example is just one more sign of how far we still have to go. It’s not an isolated incident. According to statistics compiled by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission there were 12,696 workplace sexual harassment cases filed in 2009 (which would be a fraction of the number that actuall........ Read more »
Martin N. Muller and Richard W. Wrangham. (2009) Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females. Harvard University Press. info:/
- September 2, 2010
- 12:17 PM
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Six Months to a Sexy New Body
by Paul Statt in Paul Statt Communications
Public transportation, like, say, public health or the public library, just isn’t sexy. But a fat slob isn’t sexy, either, is he? And with public transportation, he could build a sexy new physique in only 6 to 8 months, according to a recent publication in the the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.... Read more »
MacDonald JM, Stokes RJ, Cohen DA, Kofner A, & Ridgeway GK. (2010) The effect of light rail transit on body mass index and physical activity. American journal of preventive medicine, 39(2), 105-12. PMID: 20621257
- September 2, 2010
- 11:33 AM
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Racial Bias of Adult Sensitivity to Infant Facial Care-Seeking Cues
by Michael Long in Phased
John Hodsoll (Queen Mary University, United Kingdom) and coworkers have shown that preferential adult attention to infant facial features is affected by the race of the infant relative to that of the adult, suggesting an influence of experience and environment. This news feature was written on September 2, 2010.... Read more »
Hodsoll, J., Quinn, K. A., & Hodsoll, S. (2010) Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces Is Limited to Own-Race Infants. PLoS ONE, 5(9). info:/10.1371/journal.pone.0012509
- September 2, 2010
- 05:30 AM
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The consequences of accepting rape myths
by SAGE Insight in SAGE Insight
Oppression through acceptance? predicting rape myth acceptance and attitudes toward rape victims From Violence Against Women Rape myths such as ‘only bad women get raped’ and ‘women ask for it’ serve to blame the victim and exonerate the rapist. As reported rapes in the United States increased at unprecedented rates in the late 1960s and [...]... Read more »
Hockett, J., Saucier, D., Hoffman, B., Smith, S., & Craig, A. (2009) Oppression Through Acceptance?: Predicting Rape Myth Acceptance and Attitudes Toward Rape Victims. Violence Against Women, 15(8), 877-897. DOI: 10.1177/1077801209335489
- September 1, 2010
- 03:17 PM
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Self-Righteousness and Kink: Perfect Together?
by David Berreby in Mind Matters
Props to my colleague Lindsay Beyerstein for this great catch yesterday: Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle's campaign received a donation from someone who listed her employer as "husband" and her occupation as "slave." Maybe it's just a joke (boring). Or maybe this couple is in one of those Christian "submitted wife" relationships (unlikely, given that "slave" isn't the sort of rhetoric that culture promotes). But maybe this is an "out" dominant/submissive couple. That shouldn't be a ........ Read more »
Benjamin Edelman. (2009) Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(1). DOI: 10.1257/jep.23.1.209
Zhong CB, & Liljenquist K. (2006) Washing away your sins: threatened morality and physical cleansing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5792), 1451-2. PMID: 16960010
Schnall S, Benton J, & Harvey S. (2008) With a clean conscience: cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgments. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 19(12), 1219-22. PMID: 19121126
- September 1, 2010
- 02:04 PM
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Prairie Dogs: Small Creatures, Big Vocabulary
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
It is summer, July already! Vacation time for kids and the people that love them. Though many years past, I recall fondly one of our first family trips to the Black Hills of South Dakota. While en route, we stopped in the Badlands National Park. Though the Badlands might appear a barren, treeless desert (and [...]... Read more »
Slobodchikoff CN, Paseka A, & Verdolin JL. (2009) Prairie dog alarm calls encode labels about predator colors. Animal cognition, 12(3), 435-9. PMID: 19116730
- September 1, 2010
- 12:42 PM
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Green-trification
by Journal Watch Online in Journal Watch Online
Nobody’s against cleaner, greener neighborhoods. But some social scientists have worried that cleaning up could end up clearing out the poor residents who often live around polluted sites. Now, a study from Portland, Oregon looks for a link between gentrification and environmental clean-up.
Researchers have long documented the impact of LULUs — “locally undesirable land […] Read More »... Read more »
Eckerd, Adam. (2010) Cleaning Up Without Clearing Out? A Spatial Assessment of Environmental Gentrification. Urban Affairs Review. DOI: 10.1177/1078087410379720
- September 1, 2010
- 11:35 AM
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Towards a new political economy of pensions? The implications for women
by SAGE Insight in SAGE Insight
From Critical Social Policy Over recent years there has been concern about the future sustainability of UK pensions mainly linked with the increase in life expectancy of the general population. The government and pensions industry face the difficult challenge of satisfying two potentially contrasting demands: to ensure that government pension spending remains stable and also [...]... Read more »
Liam Foster. (2010) Towards a new political economy of pensions? The implications for women. Critical Social Policy, 30(1), 27-47. info:/10.1177/0261018309350807
- September 1, 2010
- 09:07 AM
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Diversity in the geosciences and the impact of social media
by Chris Rowan in Highly Allochthonous
In the September issue of GSA Today, you can find our article on The Internet as a resource and support network for diverse geoscientists. Where do we go from here? Continue reading →... Read more »
Jefferson, A.J., Hannula, K.A., Campbell, P.B., & Franks, S.E. (2010) The Internet as a resource and support network for diverse geoscientists. GSA Today, 20(9), 59-61. info:/10.1130/GSATG91GW.1
- September 1, 2010
- 07:33 AM
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the largest whorfian study EVER! (and why it matters)
by Chris in The Lousy Linguist
Let me take the ball Mark Liberman threw on Monday and run with it a bit. Liberman posted a thorough discussion of Fausey and Broditsky's neo-Whorfian English and Spanish speakers remember causal agents differently. Specifically, he invited readers to carefully examine the methodology of the experiments themselves, and not just focus on the conclusions. It turns out that a few years ago another set of neo-Whorfians, Jürgen Bohnemeyer and company, published a paper that addressed similar me........ Read more »
Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Sonja Eisenbeiss, & Bhuvana Narasimhan. (2006) Ways to go: Methodological considerations in Whorfian studies on motion events. ESSEX RESEARCH REPORTS IN LINGUISTICS, 1-19. info:other/
- September 1, 2010
- 05:30 AM
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A proposed model to help select the best method for oil spill clean ups
by SAGE Insight in SAGE Insight
A model to predict rate of dissolution of toxic compounds into seawater from an oil spill From International Journal of Toxicology As we witness with dismay the media images of the environmental consequences of the current large scale oil spills there is an urgency to find effective ways of dealing with such incidents. Hundreds of [...]... Read more »
Riazi, M., & Roomi, Y. (2008) A Model to Predict Rate of Dissolution of Toxic Compounds into Seawater from an Oil Spill. International Journal of Toxicology, 27(5), 379-386. DOI: 10.1080/10915810802503578
- August 31, 2010
- 11:14 AM
- 33 views
Rewriting Masculine Gender Scripts...
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Gast and Peak (2010) think that 'masculine gender scripts' seriously frustrate men from seeking help for their health problems. ... Read more »
Gast J, & Peak T. (2010) "It Used to Be That if It Weren't Broken and Bleeding Profusely, I Would Never Go to the Doctor": Men, Masculinity, and Health. American journal of men's health. PMID: 20798142
- August 31, 2010
- 05:30 AM
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The important links between ADHD, Heroin use and the type and extent of offending among prisoners
by SAGE Insight in SAGE Insight
Predictors of offending among prisoners: the role of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and substance use From Journal of Psychopharmacology This research significantly furthers our understanding of the role of ADHD and substance use in the offending history of truly persistent offenders. Findings reveal that frequent use of heroin in the year prior to imprisonment was the [...]... Read more »
Young, S., Wells, J., & Gudjonsson, G. (2010) Predictors of offending among prisoners: the role of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and substance use. Journal of Psychopharmacology. DOI: 10.1177/0269881110370502
- August 31, 2010
- 01:16 AM
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The new linguistic relativism: Guy Deutscher in the NYTimes
by gregdowney in Neuroanthropology
How does language affect thought and perception? It’s a question we’ve looked at here at Neuroanthropology.net on a number of occasions, but Prof. Guy Deutscher, offers a nice general survey of the current state of play in the research over at The New York Times in ‘Does Your Language Shape How You Think?’ Posts on [...]... Read more »
Casasanto, Daniel. (2005) Crying "Whorf". Science, 307(5716), 1721-1722. DOI: 10.1126/science.307.5716.1721
Casasanto, D. (2008) Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought. Language Learning, 63-79. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00462.x
- August 30, 2010
- 01:11 PM
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Phoneme Inventory Size and Demography
by Wintz in A Replicated Typo 2.0
It’s long since been established that demography drives evolutionary processes (see Hawks, 2008 for a good overview). Similar attempts are also being made to describe cultural (Shennan, 2000; Henrich, 2004; Richerson & Boyd, 2009) and linguistic (Nettle, 1999a; Wichmann & Homan, 2009; Vogt, 2009) processes by considering the effects of population size and other . . . → Read More: Phoneme Inventory Size and Demography... Read more »
Hay, J., & Bauer, L. (2007) Phoneme inventory size and population size. Language, 83(2), 388-400. DOI: 10.1353/lan.2007.0071
Lupyan G, & Dale R. (2010) Language structure is partly determined by social structure. PloS one, 5(1). PMID: 20098492
Lycett, S., & Norton, C. (2010) A demographic model for Palaeolithic technological evolution: The case of East Asia and the Movius Line. Quaternary International, 211(1-2), 55-65. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.12.001
Trudgill, P. (2004) Linguistic and social typology: The Austronesian migrations and phoneme inventories. Linguistic Typology, 8(3), 305-320. DOI: 10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.305
- August 30, 2010
- 11:32 AM
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Neuroscience of Murder and Aggression: Pharmacotherapy
by Bill Yates in Brain Posts
Davis Love--2010 PGA ChampionshipThis is the final post in the series titled: Neuroscience of Murder and Aggression. The other four posts can be found in the links below:Overview and TED video of Dr. FallonEpidemiologyGeneticsBrain ImagingThe treatment of antisocial personality disorder, aggressive behavior and violence receives a limited amount of research attention. Despite the public health implications of this problem, the therapeutic treatment options are limited. Clinicians are........ Read more »
Gibbon S, Duggan C, Stoffers J, Huband N, Völlm BA, Ferriter M, & Lieb K. (2010) Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). PMID: 20556783
Khalifa N, Duggan C, Stoffers J, Huband N, Völlm BA, Ferriter M, & Lieb K. (2010) Pharmacological interventions for antisocial personality disorder. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). PMID: 20687091
Pappadopulos E, Woolston S, Chait A, Perkins M, Connor DF, & Jensen PS. (2006) Pharmacotherapy of aggression in children and adolescents: efficacy and effect size. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , 15(1), 27-39. PMID: 18392193
Blader JC, Schooler NR, Jensen PS, Pliszka SR, & Kafantaris V. (2009) Adjunctive divalproex versus placebo for children with ADHD and aggression refractory to stimulant monotherapy. The American journal of psychiatry, 166(12), 1392-401. PMID: 19884222
- August 30, 2010
- 07:32 AM
- 24 views
Pricing Protection
by Journal Watch Online in Journal Watch Online
Protecting ocean habitat can be a bit like buying laundry detergent: Better to buy in bulk. A first-ever effort to put a price tag on the cost of setting up new marine protected areas (MPAs) finds that costs can vary, but that bigger reserves deliver more bang for the buck. Researchers calculate that planners have […] Read More »... Read more »
McCrea-Strub, A., Zeller, D., Rashid Sumaila, U., Nelson, J., Balmford, A., & Pauly, D. (2010) Understanding the cost of establishing marine protected areas. Marine Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2010.07.001
- August 29, 2010
- 02:27 PM
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THE MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF URBAN GROWTH: A CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISON
by Christopher Leo in Christopher Leo
Last May, I sketched out an idea for a research project that would look at what senior governments could do to ensure that those who make decisions about the growth of North American cities do a better job of respecting the environment. That idea has now matured into a research proposal. In this entry, I'll summarize the proposal and provide a link to the full proposal.
Here's the summary:
My proposed research will shed new light on a major, but much-neglected question: What can we learn from........ Read more »
LEO, C. (1998) REGIONAL GROWTH MANAGEMENT REGIME: The Case of Portland, Oregon. Journal of Urban Affairs, 20(4), 363-394. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9906.1998.tb00428.x
- August 29, 2010
- 11:10 AM
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How to improve your cognitive function
by Psychothalamus in Psychothalamus
In an era of ever increasing lifespan, a recent study estimated that there would be 81.1 million people with dementia by 2040 (Ferri et. al., 2005). The prevalence and incidence of dementia has also been documented to increase with increasing age (Fratiglioni, Ronchi & Agüero-Torres, 1999). Abraham Lincoln in his infinite wisdom, once said: “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years”. So what can we do to enhance our cognitive functions as ........ Read more »
Masley S, Roetzheim R, & Gualtieri T. (2009) Aerobic exercise enhances cognitive flexibility. Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings, 16(2), 186-93. PMID: 19330430
Berman, M., Jonides, J., & Kaplan, S. (2008) The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting With Nature. Psychological Science, 19(12), 1207-1212. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02225.x
Ferri, C., Prince, M., Brayne, C., Brodaty, H., Fratiglioni, L., Ganguli, M., Hall, K., Hasegawa, K., Hendrie, H., & Huang, Y. (2006) Global prevalence of dementia: a Delphi consensus study. The Lancet, 366(9503), 2112-2117. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67889-0
Fratiglioni, L., De Ronchi, D., & Ag??ero Torres, H. (1999) Worldwide Prevalence and Incidence of Dementia. Drugs , 15(5), 365-375. DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199915050-00004
- August 28, 2010
- 05:00 AM
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Links between animal cruelty and domestic violence
by SAGE Insight in SAGE Insight
Is animal cruelty a “red flag” for family violence? investigating co-occurring violence toward children, partners, and pets From Journal of Interpersonal Violence This week in the UK a nation of animal lovers were horrified at the CCTV footage circulated on YouTube that caught a woman throwing a cat in a wheely bin. For all who [...]... Read more »
DeGue, S., & DiLillo, D. (2008) Is Animal Cruelty a "Red Flag" for Family Violence?: Investigating Co-Occurring Violence Toward Children, Partners, and Pets. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 24(6), 1036-1056. DOI: 10.1177/0886260508319362
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