In 2010, after suspicions that crimes in Melbourne against Indian students were racially motivated, the number of university applications from India fell by half, reducing what is a big source of income for Australia (Indians are the second-largest group of foreigners studying in the country).
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Karg was helping to lead a group of university students studying in Yerevan, Armenia.
Incidentally, her fiction and poetry (including an international bestseller) were infused with psychological themes inspired, in part, by her participation in a chat group of scientists studying neuropsychoanalysis.
Worried about how to handle an emergency, a government advisory group recommended studying the anthrax vaccine in children if independent ethics experts agreed it could be done appropriately.
She spent nearly three years studying boredom among the Warlpiri people, an aboriginal group in the central Australian settlement of Yuendumu.
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Psychologists are studying whether the treatment can be adapted to group settings in school, even if parents aren't using the same practices at home.
Allan Manne of Stanford University and Richard Richels, who works at the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry-funded policy research group based in Palo Alto, California, have been studying this idea.
Sten Grillner's group at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has therefore spent many years studying lampreys, in order to gain insights about vertebrate nerves.
The most compelling discussion in that Psychology Today post is the note on the ethical duties of social scientists when studying group differences that can have harmful effects on the people studied.
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She is also studying a group of children to see how early M. smithii buildup occurs, and how soon in development it starts to set up a pattern of weight gain that might then be interrupted by changing the composition of the gut microbial world.
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