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Parental advice on interacting with police varies widely by race
Rutgers UniversityThe birds and the bees. Say no to drugs. Advice from parents is an expected, if cringeworthy, part of growing up.
But for some children, the odds of receiving one piece of parental wisdom known as “The Talk” – strategies for safely handling a police encounter – is heavily influenced by a child’s race and gender.
A study from Rutgers University-New Brunswick quantifies just how much influence these factors play.
“The advice parents give their kids about interacting with police – hands on the wheel, no quick or furtive movements – is shaped by lived experiences,” said Ashley Jackson, an assistant professor in the Rutgers School of Social Work and the lead author of the study published in Youth & Society. “It also changes by gender and race.”
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- Youth & Society
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- National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
Embodied interactive intelligence towards autonomous driving
Higher Education PressSelf-driving buses in China can now read human gestures, predict traffic moves, and learn from experience. Using advanced AI that mimics human social intelligence, these vehicles navigate complex road interactions—like yielding to waving pedestrians or overtaking safely—while earning high trust scores from passengers.
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- Engineering
Regional projections of the impacts of future urbanization and climate change on biogeochemical cycles in New England landscapes
ResearchIn this study, researchers developed a regional modeling framework to characterize and quantify how forests in the northeastern United States may respond to ongoing environmental change by the mid-21st century, with particular emphasis on the complex interactions occurring in urbanized landscapes.
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- Research
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- National Science Foundation for short-term ecological research, United States Department of Agriculture and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, National Science Foundation for Long Term Ecological Research at Hubbard Brook, National Science Foundation for Harvard Forest
The good, the bad, and the not-so-terrible: A comprehensive analysis of Sinclair’s effect on local television news quality
University of OregonProblematic social media use predicts higher depressive symptoms in adolescents under 16
Universidad Miguel Hernandez de ElcheAnalysing longitudinal data from 2,121 adolescents aged 13–15, researchers found that problematic social media use predicted increases in depressive symptoms one year later, particularly among younger teenagers and girls. Published in Scientific Reports, the study highlights how loss of control over social media use—rather than time spent online—may be a key mental health risk factor during early adolescence.
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- Scientific Reports
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- Ministerio de Innovación, Industria, Comercio y Turismo, Generalitat Valenciana
Beyond left and right: Socio-cultural determinants of parenting leave policy in advanced democracies
Osaka Metropolitan UniversityAn Osaka Metropolitan University researcher examined the political determinants of parenting leave policy across 21 OECD countries from 1970 to 2021, revealing that socio-cultural rather than socio-economic positions drive parenting leave expansion.
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- Journal of European Social Policy
New study explores why consumers stick with the familiar or try something new
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- Experimental Economics
Psychology: Study shows limits of multitasking
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-WittenbergEven with highly extensive training, the human brain is not really capable of performing two tasks simultaneously. Moreover, even the smallest deviations from trained routines can have a significant impact on how quickly and successfully people complete tasks simultaneously. This is shown by a new study conducted by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), the FernUniversität in Hagen and the Medical School Hamburg. It was recently published in the “Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology”.
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- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology