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'He Thinks Division Helps Him': Biden Condemns Trump's Protest Response
Speaking in Philadelphia, the presumptive Democratic nominee said President Trump's actions show "the president is more interested in power than in principle."
StatBreak: Identifying “Lucky” Data Points Through Genetic Algorithms - Hannes Rosenbusch, Leon P. Hilbert, Anthony M. Evans, Marcel Zeelenberg,
Sometimes interesting statistical findings are produced by a small number of “lucky” data points within the tested sample. To address this issue, researchers an...
Most U.S. adults feel what happens to their own racial or ethnic group affects them personally
Black Americans are the most likely to say that what happens to people from their racial group affects them personally.
We Have a Rare Opportunity to Create a Stronger, More Equitable Society - Behavioral Scientist
If things return to the way they were, we’ll have failed.
Proportionality and Dis-Proportionality in Protest and Police Tactics
David Armstrong, Thomas Zeitzoff and myself once wrote a paper about how different people perceived the severity of different tactics that could be selected by protestors and police. In this work,...
Minneapolis police made 44 people unconscious with neck restraints
Several police experts said that number appears to be unusually high. "By using this tactic, it's a self-fulfilling tragedy," said one.
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Minneapolis police rendered 44 people unconscious with neck restraints in five years
That is a lot of bad apples
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‘Birds of a feather’? Assessing the prevalence of anti-immigration attitudes among the far right electorate
(2020). ‘Birds of a feather’? Assessing the prevalence of anti-immigration attitudes among the far right electorate. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Ahead of Print.
Evidence that curtailing proactive policing can reduce major crime
Governments employ police to prevent criminal acts. But it remains in dispute whether high rates of police stops, criminal summonses and aggressive low-level arrests reduce serious crime
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Are Adewale and Ngochi more employable than Jamal and Lakeisha? The influence of nationality and ethnicity cues on employment-related evaluations of Blacks in the United States
(2020). Are Adewale and Ngochi more employable than Jamal and Lakeisha? The influence of nationality and ethnicity cues on employment-related evaluations of Blacks in the United States. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 160, No. 4, pp. 509-519.
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"Black Americans may experience more discrimination in hiring and are generally perceived less positively across several employment-related domains than both White and Black African applicants"
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Americans *vastly* underestimate racial economic inequality
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Quality interracial contact predicts lower explicit and implicit bias among non-Black physicians-in-training
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SPSSI Journals
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Black people have more positive attitudes and knowledge about protest movements than White people. This emerges in polling data, but also open free responses
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Procedural justice training reduces police use of force and complaints against officers
Police misconduct and use of force have come under increasing scrutiny and public attention. The procedural justice model of policing, which emphasizes transparency, explaining policing actions, and responding to community concerns, has been...
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Police procedural justice trainings "emphasize respect, neutrality, and transparency in the exercise of authority, while providing opportunities for civilians to explain their side of events"
They also work
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Longer is better
The longer something is thought to exist, the better it is evaluated. In Study 1, participants preferred an existing university requirement over an al…
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Reminds me of the "longer is better" effect: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… pic.twitter.com/oyQkE4RY5t
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More recently-developed crops are evaluated less favorably, whether they are produced by artificial selection (i.e., conventional breeding), natural or man-made irradiation, or genetic engineering.
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Morality is in the cultural eye of the beholder
Differences in accuracy matching Schweder moral ethics to moral situations developed in another culture.
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