Social Science posts
- March 11, 2013
- 10:11 AM
- 418 views
Where Does Culture Shock Come From?
by Eric Horowitz in peer-reviewed by my neurons
Culture is a powerful thing. It not only affects how much time you spend at work, how you treat others around you, and how much beer you consume before the age of 20, it can also influence the emotions you experience on a day-to-day basis. The simple story of how culture influences emotions is that [...]... Read more »
Boiger, M., Mesquita, B., Uchida, Y., & Feldman Barrett, L. (2013) Condoned or Condemned: The Situational Affordance of Anger and Shame in the United States and Japan. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. DOI: 10.1177/0146167213478201
- March 8, 2013
- 04:24 PM
- 142 views
Good ELF in English-medium instruction
by Ray Carey in ELFA project
Note: this is the first in a series of posts reviewing the doctoral dissertation of Jaana Suviniitty, Lectures in English as a Lingua Franca: Interactional Features. The early posts of this blog have been dealing with the internationalisation of higher education in Finland, especially with current events in Aalto University. But Aalto’s Business School isn’t [...]... Read more »
Suviniitty, Jaana. (2012) Lectures in English as a Lingua Franca: Interactional Features. Doctoral dissertation, University of Helsinki. info:/
- March 8, 2013
- 04:10 AM
- 212 views
Migrant women’s empowerment in the city
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
It is international women’s day today and the world’s women are on the move like never before: according to figures from the International Institute for Migration, women constitute 49% of the world’s 214 million transnational migrants. It is often assumed … Continue reading →... Read more »
Dreby, J., & Schmalzbauer, L. (2013) The Relational Contexts of Migration: Mexican Women in New Destination Sites. Sociological Forum, 28(1), 1-26. DOI: 10.1111/socf.12000
- March 7, 2013
- 01:30 PM
- 162 views
A Nepalese Odysseus: XDR-TB is in South Texas
by Rebecca Kreston in BODY HORRORS
The Wall Street Journal has a superb write-up of a Nepalese man infected with extremely drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) who is currently detained at the US border in South Texas.
Traveling in all of the modern ways known to man – by foot, car, boat and plane – the man ventured from his home in Nepal, traipsing through South Asia, flying to Brazil and hoofing it through Central America until reaching the southernmost tip of Texas.... Read more »
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2012) Public health interventions involving travelers with tuberculosis--U.S. ports of entry, 2007-2012. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 61(30), 570-3. PMID: 22854625
- March 7, 2013
- 02:42 AM
- 16 views
A Nepalese Odysseus: XDR-TB is in South Texas
by Rebecca Kreston in BODY HORRORS
The Wall Street Journal has a superb write-up of a Nepalese man infected with extremely drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) who is currently detained at the US border in South Texas. XDR-TB is resistant to four of the major types of antibiotics that are used to treat and control TB infections and this man is the first [...]... Read more »
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2012) Public health interventions involving travelers with tuberculosis--U.S. ports of entry, 2007-2012. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 61(30), 570-3. PMID: 22854625
- March 6, 2013
- 11:20 AM
- 182 views
Hey Hey! We’re The Monkeys!
by Miss Behavior in The Scorpion and the Frog
A tamarin rock star (photographed by Ltshears at Wikimedia)Our moods change when we hear music, but not all music affects us the same way. Slow, soft, higher-pitched, melodic songs soothe us; upbeat classical music makes us more alert and active; and fast, harsh, lower-pitched, dissonant music can rev us up and stress us out. Why would certain sounds affect us in specific emotional ways? One possibility is because of an overlap between how we perceive music and how we perceive human voic........ Read more »
Snowdon, C., & Teie, D. (2009) Affective responses in tamarins elicited by species-specific music. Biology Letters, 6(1), 30-32. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0593
- March 5, 2013
- 12:16 PM
- 209 views
Monkeys Reject Food From People Who Are Mean To Fellow Humans
by Jalees Rehman in Fragments of Truth
When we observe an interaction between two other human beings (Person A and Person B), we sometimes draw conclusions about the personality traits or character of these two individuals. For example, if we see that Person A is being rude to Person B, we may be less likely to trust Person A, even though we are merely "third-party" evaluators. i.e. not directly involved in the interaction. Multiple studies with humans have already documented such third-party social evaluation, which can ev........ Read more »
Anderson, J., Kuroshima, H., Takimoto, A., & Fujita, K. (2013) Third-party social evaluation of humans by monkeys. Nature Communications, 1561. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2495
- March 5, 2013
- 07:47 AM
- 205 views
Following the Nerd Herd – The Stereotype Revisited
by Anouk Vleugels in United Academics
“I was such a nerd in high school.” Most people who’ve been on a few first dates will recognize this line. Having nerd qualities, apparently, is nothing to be ashamed of anymore; it shows you’re quirky, unique and intelligent.. Nerds are fun now. So whatever happened to getting stuffed into the trash can for being different? And what exactly did the nerd evolve into?... Read more »
Eglash, R. (2002) Race, Sex, and Nerds: FROM BLACK GEEKS TO ASIAN AMERICAN HIPSTERS. Social Text, 20(2 71), 49-64. DOI: 10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-49
Bucholtz, M. (2001) The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 11(1), 84-100. DOI: 10.1525/jlin.2001.11.1.84
Quail, C. (2011) Nerds, Geeks, and the Hip/Square Dialectic in Contemporary Television. Television , 12(5), 460-482. DOI: 10.1177/1527476410385476
- March 4, 2013
- 09:13 PM
- 147 views
How Many English Tweets are Actually Possible?
by Jon Wilkins in Lost in Transcription
So, recently (last week, maybe?), Randall Munroe, of xkcd fame, posted an answer to the question "How many unique English tweets are possible?" as part of his excellent "What If" series. He starts off by noting that there are 27 letters (including spaces), and a tweet length of 140 characters. This gives you 27140 -- or about 10200 -- possible strings.
Of course, most of these are not sensible English statements, and he goes on to estimate how many of these there are. This analysis is base........ Read more »
C. E. Shannon. (1951) Prediction and Entropy of Written English. Bell System Technical Journal, 50-64. info:/
- March 4, 2013
- 12:49 PM
- 10 views
Falun Fanatics
by Emarkham in GeneticCuckoo
An analysis of the claims made of a religious group of organ harvesting in china, examining the evidence and looking at the reality of these claims. ... Read more »
E Markham. (2013) Falun Fanatics . Blogspot. info:/
- March 4, 2013
- 11:56 AM
- 173 views
Speak to the Brain's Politics
by Persuasion Strategies in Persuasive Litigator
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Once more, over the cliff! Our lawmakers have had to make, or not make, some risky decisions lately. The "sequester," a poison pill of across-the-board cuts designed to force a spending compromise, has just done what no one believed it would do when it was created in 2011: It's gone into effect. That is widely expected to result in hundreds of thousands of layoffs, imperil effectiveness across federal programs, and potentially nudge our struggling economy back into recessi........ Read more »
Schreiber D, Fonzo G, Simmons AN, Dawes CT, Flagan T, Fowler JH, & Paulus MP. (2013) Red brain, blue brain: evaluative processes differ in democrats and republicans. PloS one, 8(2). PMID: 23418419
- March 4, 2013
- 12:26 AM
- 221 views
Is speaking English a civic duty?
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
In today’s immigration countries, adherents of the “one nation, one language” idea face a unique ideological problem: to claim that the national language is a sign of national loyalty and incorporation into the nation while, simultaneously, disavowing any association between … Continue reading →... Read more »
Subtirelu, N. (2013) ‘English… it's part of our blood’: Ideologies of language and nation in United States Congressional discourse. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 17(1), 37-65. DOI: 10.1111/josl.12016
- March 3, 2013
- 09:17 PM
- 168 views
“It Wasn’t My Idea to Come Here”: Young Women Lack Ownership of the Idea to Immigrate
by Mark Rubin in Mark Rubin's Social Psychology Research Blog
Together with getting married and buying a house, the decision to immigrate is one of the most important decisions that a person can make. So, it’s important that immigrants feel that they have satisfactory input into the process of deciding whether or not to migrate. In some recent research, I looked at a very early stage of this decision-making process: ownership of the idea to immigrate.... Read more »
Rubin, M. (2013) “It wasn’t my idea to come here!”: Ownership of the idea to immigrate as a function of gender, age, and culture. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.02.001
- March 3, 2013
- 09:09 AM
- 180 views
You Don’t Need to Watch Porn to Be Influenced by It
by Annemarie van Oosten in United Academics
Pornography use: It’s a topic of much debate. For starters, the frequent portrayals of sexual objectification of and violence against women in pornography have led to concerns about the influence that pornography may have on the sexual attitudes of its users. However, it seems that pornography can influence you even if you are not watching it yourself.... Read more »
Stewart, D., & Szymanski, D. (2012) Young Adult Women’s Reports of Their Male Romantic Partner’s Pornography Use as a Correlate of Their Self-Esteem, Relationship Quality, and Sexual Satisfaction. Sex Roles, 67(5-6), 257-271. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-012-0164-0
- March 1, 2013
- 11:00 PM
- 169 views
Asking Amanda Palmer about cooperation in the public goods game
by Artem Kaznatcheev in Evolutionary Games Group
In the late summer of 2010 I was homeless — living in hostels, dorms, and on the couches of friends as I toured academic events: a total of 2 summer schools, and 4 conferences over a two and a half month period. By early September I was ready to return to a sedentary life of [...]... Read more »
Fehr, E., & Gächter, S. (2000) Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments. American Economic Review, 90(4), 980-994. DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.4.980
- March 1, 2013
- 09:53 PM
- 180 views
RSPCA Australia Scientific Seminar 2013: Recap
by Cobb & Hecht in Do You Believe In Dog?
Hi Julie, what a week! Thanks for all that great information about The Sounds of Dogs, that was so interesting. I definitely recognise differences in the way my dogs bark. They have very different vocalisations for "strange person at the door", "someone familiar that I'm excited to see at the door" and "Oh my goodness, you just did something that we're not meant to do!" (that last one is ALWAYS Elke 'dobbing' on Caleb - she would have totally been the teacher's pet in a classroom envir........ Read more »
Hazel Susan J., Signal Tania D., & Taylor Nicola. (2011) Can Teaching Veterinary and Animal-Science Students about Animal Welfare Affect Their Attitude toward Animals and Human-Related Empathy?. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 38(1), 74-83. DOI: 10.3138/jvme.38.1.74
Yeates James W. (2010) Death is a Welfare Issue. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 23(3), 229-241. DOI: 10.1007/s10806-009-9199-9
- March 1, 2013
- 08:12 AM
- 151 views
It’s Mr. Steal-Your Girl and He’s Black
by Patrick Meyer in United Academics
Rap music has long been critiqued for its unhealthy portrayal of sexuality, particularly its misogynistic leanings. But now might be the first time in rap’s history where sexual violence is being directed towards men instead of women. Men are the new subject of lyrical sexual assault, with women merely serving as collateral damage in this metaphorical stripping of man’s sexual power.
After many cultural critiques for being misogynistic, are men the new “bitches” in rap........ Read more »
Brown, S., & Clark, K. (2003) Melodramas of Beset Black Manhood? Meditations on African-American Masculinity as Scholarly Topos and Social Menace: An Introduction. Callaloo, 26(3), 732-737. DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0078
- March 1, 2013
- 06:11 AM
- 160 views
Women Not More Sociable Than Men
by Anouk Vleugels in United Academics
Stereotypes say that women are more friendly, helpful and sociable when being compared to men. However this doesn’t appear to be true, or that’s what researchers at the Free University Amsterdam in cooperation with universities in Singapore and Washington claim. Women and men appear to be equally cooperative, so did the scientists discover.... Read more »
Balliet, D., Li, N., Macfarlan, S., & Van Vugt, M. (2011) Sex differences in cooperation: A meta-analytic review of social dilemmas. Psychological Bulletin, 137(6), 881-909. DOI: 10.1037/a0025354
- March 1, 2013
- 01:20 AM
- 163 views
Who Should Political Parties Send to the Negotiating Table?
by Eric Horowitz in peer-reviewed by my neurons
Every time a Superdupercommittee is put together to hash out a grand bargain analysis erupts over what each appointee means for the prospect of compromise. Politico sends a whole team to dissect social security votes from two decades ago in an effort to determine if a Congressman is there just to sabotage the negotiations. Meanwhile, psychologists [...]... Read more »
Van Kleef, G., Steinel, W., & Homan, A. (2013) On being peripheral and paying attention: Prototypicality and information processing in intergroup conflict. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(1), 63-79. DOI: 10.1037/a0030988
- February 28, 2013
- 05:18 AM
- 145 views
Blogging about blogging about blogging
by Ray Carey in ELFA project
One of the base assumptions of ELF (English as Lingua Franca) research is that the English spoken between non-native speakers should be studied and understood in its own right. Lately, interest has also grown in written ELF, when English is the lingua franca of written interaction. To complement the spoken academic ELF in the ELFA [...]... Read more »
Fausto, S., Machado, F., Bento, L., Iamarino, A., Nahas, T., & Munger, D. (2012) Research Blogging: Indexing and Registering the Change in Science 2.0. PLoS ONE, 7(12). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050109
Shema, H., Bar-Ilan, J., & Thelwall, M. (2012) Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information. PLoS ONE, 7(5). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035869
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