Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Northern Ireland has twice the level of ‘Persistent’ Poverty

The research – Persistent Child Poverty in Northern Ireland – which was carried out by Save the Children in partnership with ARK, a joint project between…

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Active Father Figures Improve Children’s Mental Health Outcomes

Swedish researchers also found that regular positive contact reduces criminal behaviour among children in low-income families and enhances cognitive skills…

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Unravelling the North West’s Viking past

Focusing on the Wirral in Merseyside and West Lancashire the study of 100 men, whose surnames were in existence as far back as medieval times, has revealed…

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Women and Cigarette Use: Stress Relief Insights

One of the main conclusions of this study is that the use of cigarettes has become very important for women in order to face up to stress and anxiety, control…

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Modern Cartoons: Empowering Women Beyond Traditional Roles

Women, who are not necessarily human, have nothing to do with mythical characters such as Snow White, Cinderella, or Minnie. A study carried out by Pilar…

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Siblings Influence Adult Personality: New Rat Study Insights

Researchers assessed the behaviour of rats born with different numbers of siblings, a variable that has rarely been taken into account until now. The group…

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Shifting Focus: Punishment vs. Care in Criminal Policy

Today there is a tendency for governments to shift to more punishment-based criminal policies, after decades of dominance for the notion of care, where the…

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Labour Market Insights for People with Disabilities in EU25

The peculiarity of this analysis is that differently from other studies it is performed using the statistics of the employment status of people with…

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Understanding Aging Through Fashion: A New Research Study

The study, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, will be based on interviews with older women (aged 55 and over) and aims to learn why,…

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Middle-Aged Misery: Global Insights on Well-Being Trends

Their paper entitled “Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?” is to be published shortly in Social Science & Medicine, the world’s most-cited social…

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How Moms Boost Kids’ Learning Through Active Listening

“We knew that children learn well with their moms or with a peer, but we did not know if that was because they were getting feedback and help,” Bethany…

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Healthy Marriages: The Benefits of Constructive Conflict

Couples in which both the husband and wife suppress their anger when one attacks the other die earlier than members of couples where one or both partners…

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IKEA Innovation: The Key Role of Employee Knowledge Sharing

On Friday business analyst Anna Jonsson at Lund University will submit a dissertation with new findings: A good system for transmitting knowledge among various…

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Brits’ latest attitudes to marriage, relationships, families and sex revealed in new report

The report, entitled ‘New families? Tradition and change in modern relationships’, is published today (23 January 2008) by the National Centre for Social…

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How Abstinence-Plus Programs Reduce HIV Risk Behaviors

HIV and AIDS are huge threats to human health. Each day in 2005 around 7,600 people died from HIV-related causes and a further 38.6 million people were living…

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Understanding Parental Alienation Syndrome in Divorce Cases

In the 1980’s, PAS was defined by scientist Richard Gardner of Columbia University. Men are usually the target parent, since in most cases the mother has…

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