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Researchers have mapped an underlying psychological signature for people who are predisposed to holding extreme social, political or religious attitudes, and support violence in the name of ideology.
A new study suggests that a particular mix of personality traits and unconscious cognition - the ways our brains take in basic information - is a strong predictor for extremist views across a range of beliefs, including nationalism and religious fervour.
These mental characteristics include poorer working memory and slower perceptual strategies - the unconscious processing of changing stimuli, such as shape and colour - as well as tendencies towards impulsivity and sensation seeking.
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Allison Redlich, Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, is set to receive funding from the National Science Foundation for a project in which she will study the role of false confessions in the exoneration and compensation of wrongfully convicted individuals.
This collaborative research project has three objectives.
Redlich s first objective is to investigate the possible structural-level (e.g., wrongful conviction in a compensation statute state or not; exonerated with assistance from an innocence project); case-level (e.g., false confession or not), and individual-level (e.g., exoneration status [official vs. not], race) factors that influence whether an exoneree receives no, partial, or full compensation, and the types of compensation, financial or otherwise.
Researchers examined the association between the presence of an armed guard on scene and the severity of shootings at schools kindergarten through high school.
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IMAGE: Black and Hispanic officers make far fewer stops and arrests and use less force than white officers, especially against Black civilians, when facing otherwise common circumstances. Hispanic officers also engage. view more
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University
PRINCETON, N.J. The recent killings of Black Americans have reignited calls for policing reform, including proposals to diversify police departments, which have historically been made up of white, male officers. Yet, few studies have examined whether deploying minority and female officers actually changes police-civilian interactions or reduces instances of shootings and reported misconduct.
A study first debuted Feb. 7 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021 Annual Meeting harnesses newly collected data from the Chicago Police Department to show that deploying officers of different backgrounds does, in fact, produce large differences in how police treat civili