Confirmation bias

According to the U.S. Department of Justice 's Hate Crime Victimization Report, the percentage of hate crimes that were motivated by religious bias nearly tripled between 2004 and 2012. In 2004, ten percent of hate crimes were motivated by religious prejudice; whereas, in 2012, twenty-eight percent of hate crimes were motivated by religious prejudice (Jackson). Many of those responsible for these violent hate crimes were students. In 2012, nearly one in five of those individuals were under the…

after approval was obtained from the university Institutional Review Board (IRB). Participants had to speak English and have a diagnosis of advanced stage III-IV non-small cell lung cancer. Medical records were reviewed with an Oncologist for confirmation and eligibility to participate in the study. Screening questionnaires of physical and psychological symptoms response were verbally performed by a research assistant during a clinic visit and consent was obtained for participation.…

She was in charge of the food and clothing ministry which seemed to be almost a full-time task for her. Literally thousands of people in the church and the local community were ministered to by my mother, and I was a firsthand witness to many of those. I remember carrying sacks of groceries and clothes to homes all over the city and watching my mom pray and lead these needy people to the Lord. It was in my mother that I saw the hard and often unrecognized work of ministry, but again, it was…

21st century a few exemptions to jury trial in the Crown Court have been created. Be that as it may, there is a probability of trial without a jury. Crown Court trial without a jury is allowed in instances of suspected jury altering where there is confirmation of a "genuine and present risk" and, notwithstanding the likelihood of police protection. there is a generous probability of altering, and a trial without a jury is in light of a legitimate concern for justice.The first such indictment…

Since GMOs (or genetically modified organisms) were introduced in the mid-1990s, allergies and other health problems including reproductive disorders and autism have been escalating. Time and time again, genetically modified foods have been presented as being “the same” as their organic counterparts, so that the labeling of them in unnecessary, but the facts seem to sing a different song. Genetically modifying foods has been praised for the impressive number of crops the practice yields with the…

Before college I graduated high school I realized that I was about to enter the real world and I was not a cultured individual. I was unaware of current world events, and this really began to bother me. Here I am a 17 year old young man who is about to enter the real world, but I do not know anything about what is going on around me. After I came to this realization, I made a conscious decision to try to be more mindful of the world around me. I started reading the news more, sitting down to…

On Date Rape and Fallacious Arguments Camille Paglia is not a stranger to writing divisive editorials. As a self-proclaimed ‘social critic’, she said in response to criticism of her first book “Sexual Personae” published in 1990, “it was intended to please no one, and to offend everyone” (20Q). Thus, it should be no surprise that she has views on date rape that are unpopular for the current social mindset. In her editorial “On Date Rape”, Paglia declares “my kind of feminism stresses personal…

relationship. A lack of self-love turns into relationship insecurity. Those with low self-esteem desire confirmation and acceptance from their partner. This problem applies with both sexes. In this study it explained that insecurity and lack of self-love is brought about because individuals tend to rate their partner as more attractive than themselves. Researchers predicted that the love-is-blind bias would predict the experience of possessive and anxious jealousy after the effects of love…

Interpersonal trust is an important concept that, if further understood, can give a greater insight into how human relationships work and the processes that lead to decision making in social situations. Interpersonal trust can be defined as the belief that the person who is being trusted will do what is expected or desired, and entails the interaction between two parties: party one, the trustor, who is willing to rely in the actions of party two, the trustee. Furthermore, for a trust situation…

In psychology, physical attractiveness is defined as the degree to which a person’s physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful. The term often implies sexual attractiveness or desirability, but can also be distinct from either. Although proximity, being close to one’s potential partner geographically, and similarity, sharing personal characteristics such as social status and religion, are vitally important, evidence suggests that initially, physical attractiveness is…