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• Trump Says Profiling Is "Not the Worst Thing to Do"

  19-06-2016 13:04 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Google NewsRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. should consider profiling Muslims in response to terror attacks. "I think profiling is something that we're going to have to start thinking about as a country," Trump said during a TV interview on the CBS program "Face the Nation"
  
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• Istanbul Riot Police Disperse "Trans Pride" March

  19-06-2016 13:03 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Reuters - World NewsIstanbul riot police fired tear gas and rubber pellets on Sunday to disperse a march for transgender people banned after ultra-nationalists said that "degenerates" could not demonstrate. Hundreds of riot police cordoned off the city's main Taksim Square to prevent the "Trans Pride" rally taking place during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
  
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• Black Americans Incarcerated Five Times More Than White People

  19-06-2016 13:03 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: The Guardian“You can’t work in the justice system and not know just by looking that there are racial disparities in the system,” said Baz Dreisinger, the creator of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program which prepares New York inmates in state prison for higher education. “Every year we maybe have one white student in our class,” Dreisinger said. “Obviously race is not remotely an admissions factor for us, but it’s just the reality of what it is
  
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• Prince William Sends Father's Day Message on Mental Health

  19-06-2016 13:02 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: MSNBC - Health NewsPrince William is marking his third Father's Day with a message urging dads to discuss mental health with their kids.
  
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• Why failure is the key to flying high

  19-06-2016 07:00
  
  Whether you’re skiing or piloting a plane, mistakes are inevitable. And learning from them is vital, says Matthew SyedWe want our children to succeed, in school and, perhaps even more importantly, in life. But the paradox is that our children can only truly succeed if they first learn how to fail. Consider the finding that world-class figure skaters fall over more often in practice than low-level figure skaters. At first sight this seems contradictory. Why are the really good skaters falli
  
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• Do you have lots of friends? You probably have a high pain threshold…

  19-06-2016 07:00
  
  There’s a connection between pain tolerance and social bonding. Take the wall-sit test and see how sociable you really areAre you the type of person who makes friends easily? Find out with something called the wall-sit test. Squat against a wall with your knees at a 90-degree angle, and keep your back straight. Hold this position for as long as you can, timing yourself with your phone.How did you get on? When this study was completed under test conditions at the University of Oxford, the a
  
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