Ethnicity News

Understanding Suicide Risk Among African-American Women

December 14th, 2012
Understanding Suicide Risk Among African-American Women Learning more about the root cause of suicidal ideation is a core task for mental health providers as discovering why people contemplate ...

Going Hungry as a Child May Slow Cognitive Decline in Some Elderly

December 11th, 2012
Going Hungry as a Child May Slow Cognitive Decline in Some Elderly  People who sometimes go hungry as children have slower ...

Study Finds Overlap in Race-Gender Stereotypes

December 4th, 2012
Study Finds Overlap in Race-Gender Stereotypes An unfortunate human characteristic is our penchant for adopting thoughts or beliefs about specific types of individuals or certain ways of ...

Cultural Values Influence Kids’ Health

December 4th, 2012
New research discovers that maternal values on the importance of family impacts both birth weight and a child’s health status. Researchers from the University of Southern California determined that regardless ...

Brain’s Perceptual Activity Impacted by Social Opinions

October 8th, 2012
Brain Activity Influenced by Social OpinionsNew research from the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC suggests liking or disliking a person can affect how your brain processes actions. Researchers say that most ...

Psychiatric Disorders Persist After Kids Leave Detention

October 2nd, 2012
Psychiatric Disorders Persist After Kids Leave DetentionNew research shows that five years after serving time in a juvenile correction facility, more than 45 percent of males and nearly 30 percent of ...

Does Stress Cause Black Girls to be Overweight?

September 21st, 2012
Does Stress Cause Black Girls to be Overweight?A new study hypothesizes that the detrimental effects of chronic stress may have an ethnic bias. UCLA researchers believe that experiencing high ...

Many Separated Couples Cannot Afford Divorce

September 17th, 2012
Many Separated Couples Cannot Afford DivorceWhen a married couple chooses a long-term separation, rather than a divorce, it is most likely because they cannot afford a divorce, according to a nationwide study. “Long-term separation seems ...

Cosmo Women Feel More Sexually Empowered, Less Risk

September 5th, 2012
Cosmo Women Feel More Sexually Empowered, Less RiskA new study finds that women who read sex-related articles from popular women's magazines like Cosmopolitan are less likely to view premarital sex ...

Do We Really Get Wiser As We Get Older? Japanese Show Wisdom Earlier than Americans

August 31st, 2012
Do We Really Get Wiser As We Get Older?  Japanese Show Wisdom Earlier than AmericansDo we get wiser as we get older? It depends on where ...