Nick Camp, on Trust in the Criminal Justice System
October 1, 2024
Racism and bias are often thought to stem from an individual’s personal prejudice against a certain group, but social psychologist Nick Camp notes that isn’t the way many inequities are perpetuated in the criminal justice system. In a new Social Science Bites podcast, interviewer David Edmonds...
Police body cams can measure effects of officer communication training
September 17, 2024
ANN ARBOR – A new study based on body-worn camera footage capturing police-community interactions in Oakland, Calif., provides empirical evidence that police officer trainings can improve their interactions with the communities they serve. Findings published today in PNAS Nexus showed that...
Robert Sellers to Give James S. Jackson Distinguished Lecture
September 4, 2024
The National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) will recognize Dr. Robert Sellers, the Charles D. Moody Collegiate Professor of Psychology, as the 2023 recipient of the James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity...
Remembering Shirley Hatchett, Shaper of the First National Survey of Black Americans
August 22, 2024
Shirley Jean Hatchett, a survey researcher whose work yielded new insights about Black American attitudes and the sociology of race, died August 9, at 77. An early faculty member at the Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Dr....
Article highlights three Indigenous approaches to youth suicide prevention
August 7, 2024
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — Suicide is commonly treated as a mental health issue, but Indigenous communities, specifically American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN), often approach the issue as a social problem — one associated with settler colonialism. Addressing the...
Childhood poverty may have an effect on language processing in adults
July 24, 2024
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — Many factors influence human language development, and a new paper suggests childhood poverty could be among them. “Language processing following childhood poverty: Evidence for disrupted neural networks,” published this year in the...
Negative sentiment in environmental advocacy emails boosts engagement
July 18, 2024
ANN ARBOR—People find it hard to resist negative messages. A recent University of Michigan study reveals that recipients are more likely to engage with emails containing negative sentiment sent by the Environmental Defense Fund, a U.S. based nonprofit organization. Specifically, emails with...
How to Use ICPSR and NACDA
March 12, 2024
The MCUAAAR hosted webinar for HBCU partners Researchers often start with the arduous task of gathering data, but tapping into high-quality data sets that have already been collected can be a fast and invaluable way to survey the field, explore topics, and test ideas. By stewarding secondary data,...
RCGD to Explore Political Polarization
January 12, 2023
The U.S. is experiencing unprecedented levels of political polarization, especially in terms of affective polarization, or feelings of dislike and distrust towards members of the opposing political party. This winter, the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research...
David Dunning, on the Dunning-Kruger Effect
January 10, 2023
“The beauty and the terror of the internet,” social psychologist David Dunning tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast, “is that there’s a lot of terrific information, but there’s also a lot of misinformation and sometimes outright fraud. People...
