Hardwired to kill
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David Buss, professor of psychology at the University of Texas in Austin, contends in his latest book, "The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill", that historically the ability to kill was beneficial for men and, while modern society has introduced laws against murder, the right situation can trigger the capability to murder in anybody. Buss argues that, in the past, murder of one's rivals was beneficial for males as it afforded them greater access to females and that this tendency towards murder continues to this day in males. Buss's research across 37 countries revealed that the majority of murders are still male on male.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2005
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'You're starting to stutter. Try to stop immediately'
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An overview of the legal implications of the discovery of research conducted in 1939 by speech pathologist Wendell Johnson into stuttering using children from the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa. The research aimed to discover what the impact would on children with no speech problems if they were to be labeled as stutterers. A multi-million dollar lawsuit has been launched as a result of the discovery of the research, but leading researchers today defend Johnson, arguing that it wrong to impose today's research ethics on research done many years ago.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2005
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The epicentre of the rumble in the jungle
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Issues concerning the impact on traditional thinking of Anna Roosevelt's findings on the prehistory and ecosystem of the Amazonia region are examined. Roosevelt, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois, uncovered evidence in the 1980s and early-1990s that there was a sophisticated society in the Amazonia region at the same time as the earliest settlements in North America, dating back 11,000 years, confounding traditional thinking that the first human stirrings in the southern continent came from big-game hunting migrants from North America.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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