This RSS news feed from uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 40 in the Social Science category. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByCategoryName&categoryName=Social Science&numToShow=40 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2010 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:39:57 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ In real estate, it's location, location, location. And when it comes to why girls and women shy away from careers in computer science, a key reason is environment, environment, environment. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54341 Social Science Technology Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54341 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:07:09 GMT A novel early intervention program tested at the UW for very young children with autism - some as young as 18 months - is effective for improving IQ, language ability and social interaction, a comprehensive new study has found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53914 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53914 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:39:26 GMT Professor Dennis Donovan will discuss behavioral characteristics and correlations between drinking and aggressive driving Wednesday, Dec. 2, as part of the UW Medicine and the Seattle Public Library's Medical Lecture Series. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53912 Health and Medicine Social Science Mary Guiden (mguiden@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53912 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:42:50 GMT A young athlete's ideas about success can be shaped a coach who fosters a mastery motivational climate rather than an atmosphere where winning is the primary focus. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53678 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53678 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:46:27 GMT University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital researchers are looking for 110 6-month-old infants in the Puget Sound area to participate in a new study investigating brain development in autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53662 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53662 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:59:50 GMT Two new studies illustrate just how hard it is to make sure people take their HIV medication. One study looked at the effects of drinking alcohol on adherence and showed the risk for non-adherence was double among drinkers compared to abstainers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52991 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52991 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:17:06 GMT For an animal that has a brain about the size of two grains of sand, a lot of plasticity seems to be packed into the head of the tropical paper wasp Polybia aequatorialis. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52700 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52700 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:26:10 GMT About 90 percent of autism spectrum disorders have suspected genetic causes but few genes have been identified so far. Now a large international team, including six present and former University of Washington researchers, has identified several genetic links to autism, chief among them a variant of semaphorin 5A, a gene whose protein product controls nerve connections in the brain. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52493 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52493 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:01:08 GMT There is new evidence that depression, obesity and alcohol abuse or dependency are interrelated conditions among young adult women but not men. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52110 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52110 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:54:33 GMT Picture this. A bunch of adolescent rats walk into a bar and start consuming Jell-O shots. Lots of them. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52076 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52076 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:01:19 GMT Second, fourth and sixth grade children with and without handwriting disabilities were able to write more and faster when using a pen than a keyboard to compose essays, according to new research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51999 Education Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51999 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:20:53 GMT More people in the West are without health insurance, too. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51921 Social Science Law and Policy Catherine O'Donnell (cath2@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51921 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:27:42 GMT The U.S. Census Bureau plans to release annual statistics on poverty, income and health insurance coverage. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51878 Law and Policy Social Science Politics and Government Catherine O'Donnell (cath2@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51878 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:06:52 GMT Rates of binge drinking were 37 percent lower among eighth-grade students in communities in seven states that used a prevention system designed to reduce drug use and delinquent behavior compared to teenagers in communities that did not use the system. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51818 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51818 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:00:57 GMT Researchers have found new evidence showing that parents play a key role in whether or not their adolescent children who experiment with tobacco progress to become daily smokers before they graduate from high school. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51799 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51799 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:59:47 GMT It's getting more expensive for families to just get by in Washington. A single parent with one preschooler and one school-age child living in Seattle needs an annual income of $50,268 just to meet the family's most basic requirements, according to the Self-Sufficiency Standard for Washington 2009 report released today. A similar family living in Spokane County would need $38,562. The standard for Seattle jumped 35 percent since 2001 and the increase for Spokane in the same period rose by 28 percent. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51717 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51717 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:15:00 GMT A press conference detailing the 2009 self-sufficiency standards for all of Washington's 39 counties will be held Wednesday, Aug. 26, in Seattle. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51686 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51686 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:26:13 GMT Although Asian-Americans as a group have lower rates of thinking about and attempting suicide than the national average, U.S.-born Asian-American women seem to be particularly at risk for suicidal behavior. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51514 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51514 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:25:38 GMT Like clockwork, brain regions in many songbird species expand and shrink seasonally in response to hormones. Now, for the first time, neurobiologists have interrupted this natural "annual remodeling" of the brain and have shown that there is a direct link between the death of old neurons and their http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51429 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51429 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:25:04 GMT New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50985 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50985 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:33:00 GMT Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science of learning http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50883 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50883 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:01:14 GMT These images illustrate some of the way babies and children learn, according to the new science of learning. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50889 Social Science http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50889 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:00:43 GMT Wendy Stone, a researcher and clinician who has focused on the early identification and early intervention for children with autism, has been named the new director of the University of Washington's Autism Center. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50919 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50919 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:27:21 GMT Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50723 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50723 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:00:14 GMT Scientists trying to understand how the brains of animals evolve have found that evolutionary changes in brain structure reflect the types of social interactions and environmental stimuli different species face. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50618 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50618 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:01:05 GMT A new study validates the most surprising and controversial finding about the Implicit Association test that about 70 percent of those people who took a version of the test that measures racial attitudes have an unconscious preference for whites compared to blacks. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50463 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50463 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:12:33 GMT UW neuroscientists were delighted at the reactions of former President George W. Bush and Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki when an Iraqi reporter flung his shoes toward the two men during a Baghdad news conference. The reactions mirrored findings they found in studies about the human vision system. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50388 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50388 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:50:55 GMT Researchers trying to uncover why premature birth is a growing problem in the United States and one that disproportionately affects black women have found that pre-pregnancy depressive mood appears to be a risk factor in preterm birth among both blacks and whites. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50363 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50363 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:58:51 GMT Families throughout Washington and parts of Oregon and Idaho have two opportunities to help University of Washington researchers unlock some of the secrets of autism, a spectrum of developmental disorders that now affects about one out of every 150 children born in the United States. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50295 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50295 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:16:30 GMT In these times of trillion-dollar budgets and deficits, $6.3 billion may not seem like much money, but that's what the United States potentially could save on each group of adolescents who enter foster care every year. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50155 Law and Policy Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50155 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:45:41 GMT Lower rates of smoking among black teens may be the result of black parents setting concrete guidelines about substance use and establishing clearly defined consequences for not following those guidelines. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49748 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49748 Thu, 14 May 2009 17:16:01 GMT A new program designed to improve public understanding and news reporting of mental health and mental illness is being launched today by the University of Washington's School of Social Work and the Washington State Mental Health Transformation Project. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49399 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49399 Mon, 04 May 2009 17:53:02 GMT Stereotypes often paint a partial or false picture of an individual or group. But now researchers have found evidence that supports a stereotype held by many in the United States - that Mexicans are more outgoing, talkative, sociable and extroverted. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49344 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49344 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:25:11 GMT A national research team including six present and former UW researchers has connected more of the intricate pieces of the autism puzzle, with two studies that identify genes with important contributions to the disorder. Both studies detected genes implicated in the development of brain circuitry in early childhood. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49157 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49157 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:02:00 GMT New research shows that exclusion from the legal workforce and lack of financial aid often keep undocumented students from attending college. However, a Congressional act could remove some barriers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48941 Campus Politics and Government Social Science Catherine O'Donnell (cath2@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48941 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:00:00 GMT If Mark Twain were alive today he might rephrase his frequently cited observation about everyone talking about the weather but not doing anything about it to say, "Everyone reads or watches weather forecasts, but many people don't understand them." http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48740 Science Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48740 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:37:06 GMT Modern technology increasingly is encroaching into human connections with the natural world and University of Washington psychologists believe this intrusion may emerge as one of the central psychological problems of our times. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48400 Social Science Technology Environment Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48400 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:53:54 GMT Researchers will present results of a study on the cost benefits of a controversial model program called Housing First at 1811 Eastlake Ave. East in Seattle. The study compares the costs to taxpayers of housing homeless alcoholics at 1811 Eastlake against leaving them on the street where the major costs are the police and emergency health care. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48292 Health and Medicine Social Science Law and Policy http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48292 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:18:46 GMT Say goodbye to Italian-Americans and German-Americans and say hello to Vietnamese-Americans, Salvadoran-Americans and a bunch of other hyphenated Americans. The way people identify themselves in the United States is changing, and the way the federal census classifies them by race or ethnicity isn't painting a clear portrait of America, according to new research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48218 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48218 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:00:07 GMT Barack Obama's election could turn out to have negative consequences in addressing racial injustices in the United States, according to new research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48160 Social Science Politics and Government Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48160 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:17:34 GMT A new report from Washington Kids Count says if state unemployment rises to 9 percent, nearly 40,000 more Washington State children will find themselves in poverty. It would cost billions of dollars, and have long-term negative effects. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48130 Law and Policy Social Science Politics and Government Lori Pfingst (pfingst@u.washington.edu) and T.J. Stutman (tstutman@u.washington.edu ) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48130 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:46:21 GMT UW researchers have discovered an increased pattern of brain activity in the amygdalas of adults with autism that may be linked to the social deficits that typically are associated with the disorder. Previous research at the UW and elsewhere has shown that abnormal growth patterns in the amygdala are commonly found among young children diagnosed with autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48118 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48118 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:54:56 GMT Researchers trying to uncover the mechanisms that cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder have found an abnormality in the brains of adolescent boys suffering from the conditions, but not where they expected to find it. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48078 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48078 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:21:18 GMT A new Washington state program designed to help victims of domestic violence increase their knowledge of how to use technology safely and help minimize the risks that technology can pose when one is in an abusive relationship has been evaluated as highly successful. It can be easily adopted for use in other states or nationally. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47731 Social Science Bothell and Tacoma Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47731 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:19:30 GMT The Declaration of Independence may proclaim that all men are created equal, but American whites tend to distribute their prejudice unequally toward certain members of minority groups. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47557 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47557 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:15:27 GMT Washington state's system for imposing fines and fees, or legal financial obligations, on people convicted of felonies is riddled with inequalities and is hindering individuals from rejoining society. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47513 Law and Policy Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47513 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:57:21 GMT Past behavior is generally considered to be a good predictor of future behavior, but that may not be the case in the development of depression, particularly among adolescent girls. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47329 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47329 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:43:39 GMT Growing up with a heroin-addicted parent exposes children to a variety of detrimental experiences before the age of 18 and new research indicates that girls are four times more resilient than boys in overcoming such adverse events. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47191 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47191 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:52:43 GMT Psychologists have learned that 10-month-old infants use their prior exposure and understanding of familiar actions by a person to unravel novel actions. However, this ability is limited by the location in which the new action is performed. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46609 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46609 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:53:52 GMT Like a picture, an image can be worth a thousand words, and University of Washington autism researchers would like to capture images of the growing brains of more than a hundred infants in Washington and six other western states as part of a study examining changes in children's brains and behavior that may signal the onset of autistic symptoms. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46081 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46081 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:41:39 GMT