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Women Affected by Male to Female Ratio in Math, Science and Engineering Settings
Have you ever felt outnumbered? Like there are just not that many people like you around? We’ve all felt outnumbered in one situation or another and walking into a situation in which you sense the
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In Birds, Expecting to Mate Leads to Higher Fertilization Rates
From an evolutionary perspective, the primary task of an organism is to pass along its genes to future generations. Such genetic transmission is usually assumed to be instinctive. However, a new study shows that species
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Why Quitting May Be Good for You
Are there times when it is better to simply give up? Psychologists have been exploring this question, and more specifically a possible link between tenacity and both physical and mental health. It would seem that
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New Study Discovers Why Few People Are Devoid of Racial Bias
Why are some individuals not prejudiced? That is the question posed by a provocative new study appearing in the September issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The authors investigate
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The Science of Collective Decision-Making
Why do some juries take weeks to reach a verdict, while others take just hours? How do judges pick the perfect beauty queen from a sea of very similar candidates? We have all wondered exactly
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Racism’s Cognitive Toll: Subtle discrimination is more taxing on the brain
While certain expressions of racism are absent from our world today, you don’t have to look very hard to know that more subtle forms of racism persist, in schools and workplaces and elsewhere.
