Thousands of police departments have adopted body-worn cameras over the last few years. Previous research on acceptance of the cameras has yielded mixed findings. A new study that examined how Tempe, Arizona, planned and carried out a body-worn camera program found that adhering to federal guidelines helped ensure integration and acceptance among police, citizens, and...
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Environmental Concerns Stronger Among Younger Religious Americans
Younger generations of religious Americans tend to closely harbor concerns for the environment via stewardship more so than older parishioners, according to a study by a University of Kansas researcher. “The best way to account for this upsurge from about 1980 and on is that a lot of religious groups have actually started to talk...
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Men Take Care of Their Spouses Just as Well as Women (New Research Suggests)
Men respond to their spouse’s illness just as much as women do and as a result are better caregivers in later life than previous research suggests, according to a new Oxford University collaboration. The study, published in Journals of Gerontology, Series B, is good news for our increasingly stretched adult care services, which have become more...
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Top 43 Reasons Why Men Remain Single — According to Reddit
In the past, forced or arranged marriages meant that socially inept, unattractive men did not have to acquire social skills in order to find a long-term love interest. Today, men must be able to turn on the charm if they want to find a partner. Those men who have difficulty flirting, or are unable to...
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Exercise Can Help Beat Cocaine Addiction, Study Finds
Exercise can help prevent relapses into cocaine addiction, according to new research led by the University at Buffalo’s Panayotis (Peter) Thanos, PhD. “Cocaine addiction is often characterized by cycles of recovery and relapse, with stress and negative emotions, often caused by withdrawal itself, among the major causes of relapse,” says Thanos, senior research scientist in...
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Bad Policing, Bad Law, Not ‘Bad Apples,’ Behind Disproportionate Killing of Black Men
Killings of unarmed black men by white police officers across the nation have garnered massive media attention in recent years, raising the question: Do white law enforcement officers target minority suspects? An extensive, new national study from the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University-Newark reveals some surprising answers. Analysis of every...
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Altered Images: New Research Shows That What We See Is Distorted by What We Expect to See
New research shows that humans “see” the actions of others not quite as they really are, but slightly distorted by their expectations. Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study could explain why people get others’ actions so wrong and see ambiguous behavior as meaningful, according to authors from the University of Plymouth School...
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Got the ‘Drunchies’? New Study Shows How Heavy Drinking Affects Diet
They’re called the “drunchies,” or drunk munchies. It’s the desire one has to eat salty, fatty, unhealthy foods during or after a night of heavy drinking. With obesity continuing to rise in America, researchers decided to look at a sample of college students to better understand how drinking affects what they eat, both that night...
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The Value of Pride
The intensity of pride people feel for a given act or trait is set by an implicit mental map of what others value. As a personality characteristic, pride gets a pretty bad rap. Counted among the seven deadly sins (right up there with greed, lust and envy), it is considered by some to be the...
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How People View Crime Depends on the Politics of When They Were Growing Up
A new study in the British Journal of Criminology indicates that the different political periods in which people ‘came of age’ has an important influence on their perception of crime, even decades later. For over forty years, researchers have sought to understand the causes and implications of people’s fear of crime. But to date, no studies have...
