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...
ISR, partners conduct first national study of public libraries’ Black History Month programming
November 14, 2023
The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR)– in partnership with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and the Public Library Association (PLA)– is embarking on a three-year project that will be the first systematic, national study to assess the...
Pam Davis-Kean named Director of ISR’s Survey Research Center
June 12, 2024
Pam Davis-Kean has been selected as the Director of the Survey Research Center (SRC) for a five-year term beginning September 1, 2024. Davis-Kean is a Professor of Psychology, a Research Professor in the Survey Research Center and Research Center for Group Dynamics, and a Faculty Associate of...
New funds for Family Safety Net pilot program to implement innovative approach to suicide prevention in northwest Alaska
June 11, 2024
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — After developing a brief family-focused suicide prevention intervention, new funding from the Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education will enable an implementation study to find out how to integrate the...
Meet Kristine Ajrouch
June 10, 2024
MCCFAD Co-Director joins RCGD as research professor, with new Healthy Aging grant addressing dementia-related stigma among MENA-Americans Growing up in an immigrant family, Kristine Ajrouch (Ahzh-ROOSH) has always been intrigued by people who immigrated – how they learned to think and talk in a...
