Category: Social Science

Social Science

“Mental Health is a Separate but Unequal System”

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Child psychologist, Tim Murphy, tells USA Today:

“The federal government has set so many barriers to getting care, which they have done with no other type of illness, and it is wrong. There is no other area of medicine where the government is the source of the stigma.”

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Changing Public Stories About Domestic Violence

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In a poor example of social science journalism, the Washington Post ran an irresponsible article by a sociologist who used invalid statistics to argue women who are married are more protected from domestic abuse. International social science studies show this is not the case.

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No Neat Cause and Effect Between Violence and Media

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Psychologists Markus Appel and Susanne Jodbauer reviewed a large body of literature examining the link between violence in the media and how this shapes aggression.

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