Returning soldiers’ intimate relationships: Emotions, PTSD and alcohol
2010 study by the University of Minnesota Medical School and Duke University Medical Center on relationship problems among returning Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers.
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Cost of long-term medical benefits to Afghanistan and Iraq veterans
2012 review of research on the long-term costs of providing medical and disability benefits to veterans from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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Is It generalized anxiety disorder or poverty? Poor mothers and their children
2012 study from Rutgers finds that overly broad definitions of mental illness have resulted in improper categorization of some poor mothers as suffering from psychiatric conditions.
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Corporate political contributions: Investment or agency?
2012 working paper by University of Minnesota and the University of Kansas on the relationship between firms’ political donations and corporate performance.
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Go where the money is: Modeling street robbers’ location choices
2012 study from Loyola University of Chicago and the Netherlands Institute in the Journal of Economic Geography on how street robberies cluster in certain areas, and why.
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Measuring learning outcomes in higher education: Motivation matters
2012 study from ETS in Princeton, New Jersey, published in Educational Researcher on standardized testing in higher education and student motivations.
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Suicide among patients treated by the Veterans Health Administration
2012 study in the American Journal of Public Health comparing suicide rates among veterans to those among the general public.
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Exploring the impacts of safety culture on immigrants’ vulnerability in crashes
2012 study in the Journal of Urban Health on the role of safety culture in census tract-level pedestrian and cyclist crashes in New York City.
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Irony of satire: Political ideology and the motivation to see what you want to see in The Colbert Report
2011 study in the International Journal of Press/Politics investigates the influence of political ideology on a viewer’s perceptions of satirist Stephen Colbert.
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Early predictors of high school math achievement
2012 study from Carnegie Mellon University, University of California-Irvine and others published in Psychological Science on the link between elementary and high school math achievement.
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