How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans
Harvard Chan’s David Williams, whose research looks at how discrimination affects Black people’s health, talks about his pioneering work to assess the toll that police killings are having on Black mental health.
Christina Pazzanese •
harvard
May 13, 2021 • ~16 min
May 13, 2021 • ~16 min
Harvard study suggests racial tension may stem from fear of exposure to infectious diseases
A postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of Psychology Professor Matt Nock,Brian O’Shea is the lead author of a study that suggests racial tension may stem not from different groups being exposed to each other, but fear of a different sort of exposure — exposure to infectious diseases. The study is described in a July 15 paper published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Peter Reuell
• harvard
Aug. 5, 2019 • ~4 min
Aug. 5, 2019 • ~4 min
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