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• What Should Happen to George Floyd Square? The Community Is Divided

  24-05-2025 12:02 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google NewsIt's a chilly morning at the corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis, Minnesota. Several social justice activists are sitting around a fire pit set up between defunct gas pumps. This gas station has been vacant ever since George Floyd, a Black citizen, was murdered by a White police officer across the street five years ago. And this group of people has met here, they say, every morning since. So, what comes next?
  
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• Disabled Students Often Report Feeling Left Behind in Emergencies

  24-05-2025 12:02 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsNiamh Winright's worst nightmare began with a loud bang. Then came the sound of shattering glass and the echoes of gunfire. Reality set in—she was caught in the middle of a school shooting. On the morning of October 24, 2022, panic swept through the joint campus of the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School and the Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience in St. Louis, Missouri. The 911 calls began pouring in as a gunman entered...
  
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• Why We Trust People Who Grew Up with Less

  24-05-2025 09:58 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: APA Press ReleasesWhen deciding whom to trust, people are more likely to choose individuals who grew up with less money over those who went to private schools or vacationed in Europe, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. The research, involving a series of experiments with more than 1,900 participants, was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
  
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• Vitamin D May Slow Biological Aging, Study Suggests

  24-05-2025 09:58 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthNew results from a randomized trial show that daily vitamin D3 supplements may slow a key biological aging process. Over four years, those who took vitamin D experienced significantly less telomere shortening, equivalent to nearly three years of delayed aging, compared to those who took a placebo. These findings suggest that vitamin D may offer a way to reduce age-related cellular decline. The report appears in The American Journal of Clinical...
  
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• Are Groovy Brains More Efficient?

  24-05-2025 09:58 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthThe smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face recognition and reasoning ability. A new study shows that the depths of these tertiary sulci are also linked to increased interconnectedness between areas of the brain associated with reasoning and high-level cognitive functions.
  
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• South Africa Crime Statistics Debunk "White Genocide," Says Minister

  24-05-2025 09:45 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - AfricaSouth Africa's latest crime statistics debunk claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump that a genocide is being committed against White people, the country's police minister says. Trump made the widely discredited allegation in a meeting with South Africa's president, claiming that White South Africa farmers were being targeted. On Friday, the police minister said that between January and March, 5 out of the 6 people killed on farms were Black.
  
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