

Fear of Police Brutality Differs Among Races, Study Finds
According to a recently published nationwide study by two professors at the University of South Florida, Black people are five times more likely to fear police brutality than white people, while Latino people are four times more likely than white people. The report was written by criminology instructor Murat Haner and Melissa Sloan, associate professor of sociology. In “Race and Worrying about Police Brutality: The Hidden Injuries of Minority Status in America,” they write th


The Loneliness Epidemic
There's an epidemic sweeping the world, and it's not the one you think. A new paper published in the Trends in Cognitive Sciences journal looks at the profound effects that a solitary lifestyle can have on the health, including a solitary lifestyle due to social distancing. Co-authored by Associate Professor Danilo Bzdok and Emeritus Professor Robin Dunbar, the paper explored a broad range of other studies to find that social isolation has a direct negative effect on health i