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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new paper co-written by Desmond Upton Patton, a professor at Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) and Penn's Annenberg School for Communication, explores the role of images in the online grieving practices of gang-affiliated Black youth. The study is believed to be the first of its kind and aims to…

Frequency of even reports. Credit: Economics Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111496 Psychology and Economics come together in a recent line of research, led by Ismael Rodríguez-Lara, Professor at the University of Malaga, who studies how lies affect economic decisions. It is a study, developed together with the Professor at the University of…

Box plot of the overcrowding index for the 6 sectors of Cañada Real. Credit: Energy Research & Social Science (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103182 About 4,000 people in Madrid, almost half of the inhabitants of La Cañada Real, have experienced extreme energy poverty. That is one of the conclusions of a study by researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) that analyses the energy uses and needs of the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Analysis of more than 140 individuals convicted of extremist offenses in England and Wales has revealed how terrorists who act alone, in pairs, or in a group differ in background, social influence and activity. The study of specialist files was carried out by Nottingham Trent University (NTU), His Majesty's Prison…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study in the International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics has introduced a new Shipping Industry Risk Sentiment Index (SRSI). This tool has been designed to analyze sentiment in the news media concerning South Korea's shipping industry. The SRSI utilizes an innovative method involving text analysis of news articles from Korean newspapers, focusing on terms related to the six…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A research team at the University of Cordoba studied the behavior of those defending adolescent victims of bullying and its relationship to the student's social and regulatory adjustment and perceptions of popularity among peers. Bullying is defined as a set of aggressive and immoral behaviors repeated over time and in which…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The green transition towards a more sustainable and environmentally friendly economy has become a necessity to combat climate change, the scarcity of resources, and pollution. Businesses have been forced to shift from traditional fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. But how does this transformation affect the…

The Tesla Cybertruck. Credit: Tesla Broadcasting live on X (formerly known as Twitter) last Thursday, Tesla's CEO (and X owner) Elon Musk said that the Tesla Cybertruck is a car of the future "that looks like the future". The design is bold. Not just due to the unusual shape and the stainless steel…

Diagram of a social network that includes personality traits and computation of the triadic influence. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2215041120 Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and Loyola University have discovered that personality does not seem to have much influence when it comes to choosing social…

Founded by an expert on geography and globalization, Climate Alpha’s AI-based platform helps real estate owners and investors analyze the impact of climate change on their portfolios. The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Jungle Ventures through its new First Cheque@Jungle program for second-time founders and operators with a lot of experience. Climate Alpha’s customers include institutional investors like Oaktree Capital and BentallGreenOak, and American…