Poverty and health: The mediating role of perceived discrimination
2012 study from Cornell University and University of Wisconsin-Madison in Psychological Science on how poverty levels and perceived discrimination can lead to poorer health.
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Constrained after college: Student loans and early-career occupational choices
2011 study by the U.C. Berkeley and Princeton University in the Journal of Public Economics on how student debt can affect early career choices.
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The value of fame: Preadolescent perceptions of popular media and their future aspirations
2011 study by the University of California-Los Angeles in Developmental Psychology on tween values and media engagement.
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Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception
2011 report in Psychological Science on individual self-enhancement bias and societal levels of income inequality.
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Juvenile arrest and collateral educational damage in the transition to adulthood
2012 study from the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University on the impact of an arrest on a teen’s educational trajectory.
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Chasing the American dream: Recent college graduates and the Great Recession
2012 report from the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers on patterns of employment, wages and difficulties in job-finding among recent graduates.
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Subsidized housing, public housing and adolescent violence and substance use
2012 study by Indiana University-Purdue University published in Youth & Society on public housing, violence and drug use among adolescents.
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Therapeutic value of adolescents’ blogging about social-emotional difficulties
2012 study from researchers at the University of Haifa published in Psychological Services on how blogging by teens can help well-being.
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Religion replenishes self-control
2012 paper by Queen’s University published in Psychological Science that explores how invoking religious concepts can affect one’s propensity toward self control.
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Longitudinal gender and age bias in a prominent amateur new media community
2012 study published in New Media and Society on age and gender discrimination in an online community.
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