Max Coleman's research found that "Women tend to be more vulnerable to the adverse psychological effects of “network events” (stressors that occur to loved ones). The cost-of-caring hypothesis is regarded as the primary mechanism for this vulnerability and posits that women’s relatively high level of emotional involvement in the lives of network members causes women to experience greater empathetic reactions when loved ones encounter stressors."
In a groundbreaking study, University of Utah researchers, Sara Grineski and Roger Renteria, found strong evidence that exposure to industrial pollution during pregnancy can shape a grandchild’s neurodevelopment. A child has a higher risk of an intellectual disability if their grandmothers lived near industrial facilities while pregnant with a parent, especially the mother. Higher density of industrial facilities corresponded to higher risk for the child.
Brett Clark’s new research links military spending and carbon emissions and was published recently in PLOS Climate. Brett and his colleagues analyzed US military expenditures and documented a strong relationship with energy use. Their paper argues the Dept of Defense can substantially reduce its carbon emissions by reducing spending.
This study’s purpose was to identify how AI/AN undergraduate students’ self-efficacy and science identity changed from participating in the 2022 Native American Summer Research Internship (NARI)
Scholars debate whether populism represents a potential corrective or an existential threat to democracy. Populism may enhance democracy by giving voice to previously neglected or marginalized groups (Bonikowski et al. 2019; Juon and Bochsler 2020; Mouffe 2005; Roberts 2012; Rovira Kaltwasser 2012). Others worry that populism undermines minority protections, government constraints, and the rule of law (Kenny 2020; Kriesi 2014; Müller 2016; Pappas 2015; Taggart 2000; Urbinati 2019). We develop general propositions that consider both possibilities.