Classification of schizophrenia into clinical subtypes based on objective and subjective social cognition
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This study explored the agreement or discrepancy between subjective difficulties in social cognition and actual cognitive impairment in patients with schizophrenia. It identified three clinical subtypes: the “low-impact group” (low levels of objective impairment and subjective difficulties), the “unaware group” (high levels of objective impairment but low levels of subjective difficulties), and the “perceptive group” (moderate levels of objective impairment and high levels of subjective difficulties). This classification could serve as a guidepost for formulating individualized, targeted interventions.
New study details how major real-world events grow and strengthen global hate networks online, inciting new hate content around specific hot-button issues.
Congratulations to Prof. Tamar Saguy of the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology on receiving the 2024 Diversity Science award for outstanding researchers from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP). The SESP is a prestigious international scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of social psychological research, with a particular focus on experimental research. The award, presented annually, recognizes substantial, innovative, and sustained contributions to advancing the social psychology of diversity. Prof. Saguy studies the psychology of social change. Her research, which spans over 100 articles and has been cited more than 7,500 times, examines the mental processes that perpetuate inequality and explores interventions that can help bring about social change. Her work addresses various forms of inequality, including those based on nationality, race, ethnicity, and gender. Her research has been utilized to optimize intergroup encounters, both within and beyond the academic sphere.
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U.S. immigration law and the legal categorizations it imposes on migrants shape the journeys of migrant children from Central America as they move through Mexico toward the southern U.S. border, according to a new Yale study.
In the study, sociologist Ángel Escamilla García documents the various hard decisions Central American youth are forced to make during their journeys to maximize their chances of not being deported once they reach the United States. Those choices include concealing sexual assaults, beatings, and other crimes inflicted on them during their travels; drastically altering their routes through Mexico; and separating from their family members before attempting to cross the border.
The study, published in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, is based on interviews and focus groups that Escamilla García conducted with 32 minors who were migrating to the United States from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. He spoke with the participants at migrant shelters in four locations in southern and northern Mexico.