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First-Generation Students Unite
The New York Times: Ana Barros grew up in a two-family house built by Habitat for Humanity, hard by the boarded-up buildings and vacant lots of Newark. Neither parent attended college, but she was a
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Anger Linked With Better Health in Some Cultures
“Many of us in Western societies naively believe that anger is bad for health, and beliefs like these appear to be bolstered by recent scientific findings,” says APS Fellow Shinobu Kitayama of the University of
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Increasing Individualism in US Linked with Rise of White-Collar Jobs
Rising individualism in the United States over the last 150 years is mainly associated with a societal shift toward more white-collar occupations, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association
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People Don’t Hate Millennials
Slate: I know, I know. Millennials have been written to death. But I’m going to make like the millennial I am and say it’s my duty, as the voice of my generation (avoice of a generation?), to
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Is Income Inequality Destroying Trust In Our Society?
Fast Company: It makes sense that trust in corporations and government would plummet after a devastating global recession. But the idea of social capital–a concept that the World Bank started researching in the ‘90s–is a much bigger societal
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Nobody in America Trusts Anyone, Says New Study
New York Magazine: Trust: It’s really important both for interpersonal relationships and for things like, say, having government that can function at all. Unfortunately, America is running on a serious trust deficit at the moment, if
