Reunion, in administrative terms now both a département of France and an Overseas region, had at the end of 2006 over 780 000 inhabitants over a 2500 km²…
Writing today in the International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry, Patrick Kierkegaard of the University of Essex, England, suggests that there is…
Indigenous movements tend to portray the Indian population as unchangeable and authentic in order to demand certain political and cultural rights. They do this…
The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Sign Language Studies, charts the history of signing and interpreting in court proceedings pulled from…
This is one of the messages to be conveyed by Prof. Anke van Hal of TU Delft in her inaugural address on Wednesday 7 May. “I see it as a personal challenge to…
People act in their own best interests, according to traditional views of how and why we make the decisions that we do. However, psychologists at the…
These are the findings of a research project conducted by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), which compares population development in the…
It found that problem drug-users who were younger, homeless or not currently injecting are significantly more likely to exit early, possibly because drug…
Mirroring human cohabitation, they offer a valuable contribution to the understanding of a new world order, which is particularly sensitive to troubled regions…
The researchers at Queen’s Institute of Child Care Research hope their review will influence a change in the policies and practices that contribute to the…
When groups of individuals from different cultures come into contact with each other on a regular basis, the original cultural patterns of one or both groups…
This is the assertion of Lasse Gerrits in his dissertation The Gentle Art of Coevolution, in which he investigated the decision-making concerning the expansion…
The Durham University-led study of 700 heterosexual participants also found that young men and women look for complete opposites when it comes to relationships…
Researchers found that EU countries with the highest rates of children living in institutions also had high proportions of international adoptions. This did…
The research, presented later this month at the conference of the British Sociological Association, is based upon a survey in which families were asked to map…
If we see people in difficulty, for example, we feel the same emotions, and this may prompt us to help them. Yet the relationship between empathy and altruism…
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