http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Michael North, a fifth-year graduate student in psychology at Princeton University, knew he was lucky to land a summer research position at the University of Michigan after he finished his bachelor's degree there in 2006. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-path-ageism.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:10:01 EST news285836299 The structure of a man's face may indicate his tendency to express racially prejudiced beliefs, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-facial-endorsement-racial-prejudice.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:50:02 EST news279987385 In 2008, research showed that expressing support for Barack Obama increased people's comfort in subsequently saying or doing things that might be considered racist. Researchers argued that endorsing a black political figure made people feel as if they had "non-racist credentials" that reduced their concern about subsequently seeming prejudiced. Now this same research group has identified a mental trick that people play to convince themselves that they have these same non-racist credentials: convincing themselves that they were presented with but passed up opportunities to act in racially insensitive ways in the past. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-rewriting-personal-history-racist-roads.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:39:49 EST news273850717 Although depression and prejudice traditionally fall into different areas of study and treatment, a new article suggests that many cases of depression may be caused by prejudice from the self or from another person. In an article published in the September 2012 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, William Cox of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues argue that prejudice and depression are fundamentally connected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-prejudice-depression-societal-interpersonal-intrapersonal.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:35:44 EST news267204926 Results of a new study reported recently by psychology researcher Lisa Scott and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst confirm that although infants are born with equal abilities to tell apart people within multiple races, by age 9 months they are better at recognizing faces and emotional expressions of people within groups they interact with most. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-infants-year.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 02 May 2012 15:20:01 EST news255190433 For a 6-year-old, one of the most powerful educational tools may be direct instruction, according to new research on how children learn about prejudice. Scientists found that as children get closer to age 10, they begin to rely more on their own experiences rather than what people tell them – but for youngsters, instruction trumps experience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-young-children-prejudice-older.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:14:37 EST news251374467 (Medical Xpress) -- Obese people who lose weight will encounter far less social stigma and may even be seen as fitter than if they had been lean all along, but they may still face prejudice relating to how they lost weight, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-weight-stigma.html Health Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:14:14 EST news250505920 Historic legal rulings did not protect the rights of persons with disabilities, while legal rulings concerned with race or gender provided much more protection of individual rights and freedoms according to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Queen's University PhD student Christopher A. Riddle has determined in a recent study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-rights-people-disabilities.html Health Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:52:43 EST news246718354 Youngsters in Norway today are not as fit as earlier generations, and even the best perform less well. Researchers now warn that a wave of inactivity could have a major long-term health impact. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-sitting-it-out.html Health Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:25:19 EST news246191112 (Medical Xpress) -- Where does prejudice come from? Not from ideology, say the authors of a new paper. Instead, prejudice stems from a deeper psychological need, associated with a particular way of thinking. People who aren’t comfortable with ambiguity and want to make quick and firm decisions are also prone to making generalizations about others. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-states-prejudice-basic-human.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:50:02 EST news243592263 Evolutionary psychologists suspect that prejudice is rooted in survival: Our distant ancestors had to avoid outsiders who might have carried disease. Research still shows that when people feel vulnerable to illness, they exhibit more bias toward stigmatized groups. But a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science suggests there might be a modern way to break that link. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-vaccination-social-prejudice.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:28:40 EST news241774089 New research shows that you can reduce racial prejudice simply by having a person mimic the movements of a member of the race he or she is prejudiced against. The method may work by activating brain mechanisms that contribute to feelings of empathy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-prejudice-imitation.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:25:46 EST news236859936 Studies by the University of Toronto's psychology department suggest that racism may impact some female minority groups more deeply than sexism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-female-minorities-affected-racism-sexism.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:47:20 EST news229614421 Women's bias against male strangers increases when women are fertile, suggesting prejudice may be partly fueled by genetics, according to a study by Michigan State University psychology researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-prejudice-linked-women-menstrual.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:59:04 EST news227955519 (Medical Xpress) -- A team led by University of Arizona researcher Jeff Stone sought to expand what is known about effective prejudice reduction strategies, finding that a key when confronted by a prejudiced individual is to ask self-affirming questions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-prejudice-subtlety.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 09 May 2011 10:09:25 EST news224154538 (Medical Xpress) -- Does interacting with other groups reduce prejudice and conflict? Can it be proven? "The answer is yes, it helps, overwhelmingly," says Thomas F. Pettigrew, social psychology research professor at UC Santa Cruz. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-personal-contact-tension-prejudice.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:28:13 EST news223295275