Agent-based models and statistics reveal the turning point of revolutions
Computational models and statistics can shed light on why several recent cases of violent revolts and sustained periods of turmoil in North Africa and in the Middle East resulted in entirely different...
View ArticleWhat really is happening in the Dutch borderlands
As a result of the refugee crisis and the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (RNM) is stepping up immigration controls in the Dutch borderlands. These measures...
View ArticleEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
09/05/2016, WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences by Matthew Desmond (Harvard University)
View ArticleAbnormally Low Blood Flow Indicates Damage to NFL Players’ Brains
The discovery of brain pathology through autopsy in former National Football League (NFL) players called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has raised substantial concern among players, medical...
View ArticleWhat Does Co-Determination Do? What Can We Learn from Research?
12/05/2016, International Conference 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the passage of the German Co-determination Act of 1976. This law, which mandates the parity representation of workers in the...
View ArticleSynthetic Cannabinoids versus Natural Marijuana: A Comparison of Expectations
An article entitled “Comparison of Outcome Expectancies for Synthetic Cannabinoids and Botanical Marijuana,” from The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, studied the expected outcomes of both...
View ArticleQuestioning attitudes to dating across the colour line
A new study examines for the first time how both biracial and monoracial daters really feel about dating someone with a different background to theirs. The research, published in Ethnic and Racial...
View ArticleToo much self-confidence can lead to foreign policy fiascos for Prime Ministers
Finding someone to blame for policy fiascos is part of politics, but a new study of British Prime Ministers suggests that many of them should be pointing the finger squarely at themselves. Klaus...
View ArticleResearch network helps set up online course on urban agriculture...
Researchers involved in COST-funded Urban Agriculture Europe (UAE) network have helped develop a course meant to equip university students, SMEs, public authorities and NGOs with the right know-how to...
View Article‘The end of western civilization’? Trump, Clinton, and the 2016 presidential...
In a new article from The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, author and former Director of the Center for Culture and Security at the Institute of World Politics, Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon, gives a frank...
View ArticleResearchers to evaluate offender skills training in Wales
RESEARCHERS from the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University will be helping the Welsh government evaluate their essential skills training for offenders serving sentences in the...
View ArticleSpeakers of two dialects may share cognitive advantage with speakers of two...
The ability of children to speak any two dialects – two closely related varieties of the same language – may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who speak...
View ArticleTheory Into Practice has published a new special issue on “Psychological...
""When the public thinks about psychology, it likely connects the term with therapy or mental health (Mills, 2009). Although that association is indeed correct, it reflects an overly restrictive view....
View ArticleSpecial Issue Celebrates Life & Research of Dr. Jane Myers
""The Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy, the official journal of the Chi Sigma Iota Counseling Academic and Professional Honor Society International, and a publication from Routledge, is...
View ArticleHarsh Out of Necessity
Multiple sclerosis (MS) can have a strong impact on the life of patients. Not only must they address the unpleasant symptoms, they are also subject to unpredictable relapses after more or less long...
View ArticleA theory explains why gaming on touchscreens is clumsy
New research challenges the belief that touchscreens are worse input devices because they lack physical buttons. The reason is that key press timing in touchscreen input is unpredictable. When timing...
View ArticleParents and social media: do as I say, not as I do
Parents engage in extensive use of social media and technology - but think it is harmful for their children, a paper presented today at the annual conference of the British Psychological Society in...
View ArticleHamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar) and Brill collaborate on new Open Access...
Last week in Doha Mr. Herman Pabbruwe, the CEO of Brill, Dr. Khaled Letaief, Provost of the Hamad bin Khalifa University, and Dr. Tariq Ramadan, the Director of the Research Center for Islamic...
View ArticleHow we understand others
People who empathise easily with others do not necessarily understand them well. To the contrary: Excessive empathy can even impair understanding as a new study conducted by psychologists from Würzburg...
View ArticleWie wir andere verstehen
Menschen, die sich gut in andere hineinfühlen können, müssen diese nicht unbedingt auch gut verstehen. Im Gegenteil: Überbordendes Einfühlen kann das Verstehen sogar beeinträchtigen. Das zeigt eine...
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