attitudes

Something as simple as seeing all-gender signs in public places, like restrooms, was linked to adolescents' acceptance of transgender and nonbinary people, a new study has found. In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers conducted an online experiment with a nationally representative sample of 319 adolescents aged 12 to 17, testing how gendered signs displayed on public facilities affected participants'…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Urban protests that involve occupying public spaces can be effective for conveying protesters' messages and gaining wider support, but it's thought that they may backfire if they severely disrupt the everyday lives of non-participants. A study published in The British Journal of Sociology found that after the Occupy Central Movement in Hong Kong, residents living near the occupied areas not…

The study looked at the variation in attitudes towards parenting across two samples of participants from different backgrounds, and found that cultural attitudes about parenting seem to relate to infant experience in some ways, but not others. Credit: Holden et al., CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Mothers in the samples from the U.K. and Uganda have different attitudes toward parenting, but while on a group…

<!----> Thatcham Research has revealed further insights from its Trust in Automation study – which polled 2,000 motorists in the US and 2,000 in the UK – and found a significant disconnect between attitudes and behaviours on either side of the Atlantic. American drivers are more…

The intentions behind this documentary about disabled rights activist Simon Sansome and his wife, Kate, are noble, but the tacky, cliché-ridden execution doesn’t live up to them. Essentially, the film is built around one long interview with the Sansomes on how, not long after their wedding, Simon suddenly found himself paralysed from the waist down (“Little did we know it was going to be our final dance together,” he says). The combination of a clumsy chiropractor, a rare condition and misdiagnosis turned him into a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tools that invite interaction with political news online—such as liking and commenting buttons—can change users' feelings toward those who hold opposing political views. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Around the world, public attitudes toward international politics are coalescing into two opposing blocks: liberal democracies favoring the United States (US) and citizens of more authoritarian nations who back China and Russia—a process accelerated by the war in Ukraine. …

The phrase “labor market” doesn’t do justice to the complex relationship between workers and their jobs. Unlike ordinary goods and services, such as slabs of steel or cups of coffee, workers care about how they’re treated, and have other things to do with their time.This has become glaringly apparent from recent events. Last week, railroad workers nearly went on strike over working conditions, such as how much time they could take off for medical needs without penalty. In Minnesota, nurses walked off the job for more pay…

Alex Tolkin, a joint doctoral student in political science and communication. Credit: University of Pennsylvania "Sports are the last unifying cultural feature in America," says Alex Tolkin, a joint doctoral student in political science and communication who recently gave a Penn Grad Talk titled "Field of (American) Dreams: Sports and Belief in Competition."…

Terrorism affects people’s relationship to other groups, according to a study that looked at the combined answers from more than 400 000 individuals who answered questionnaires. Credit: Shutterstock, NTB Many studies have investigated how terrorism affects people. A new, large meta-study has compiled the results of 325 previous studies to tease out some overall results across contexts. The meta-study includes responses from…