Law & Society

Research explores the experiences of gay Christians who have sought help from the growing ‘ex-gay’ movement in the United States

Research explores how stammers are linked to perceptions of identity

From: American Journal of Transplantation

From: Social Science Quarterly

From: British Journal of Social Psychology

Authors Theodore Roosevelt Malloch and Jordan Mamorsky make an impassioned call for an end to corrupt and irresponsible practices and the restoration of a more virtuous, ethics-based version of capitalism. More importantly, they offer cogent, well-reasoned prescriptions for how to achieve that end and restore trust.

From: Journal of Personality

Aside from marriage laws, it is important for same-sex couples to be knowledgeable on their states’ tax, finance, healthcare and adoption laws as those too can impact their future.

The authors of the definitive work on higher education law have distilled their new two-volume edition into a single-volume text for graduate courses on the topic.

Freemasons do keep some secrets, but none of them are as scandalous or conspiracy-laden as the rest of us might suspect. 

Crowdfund investing is going to be the next big thing on Wall Street. U.S. investment banks, brokerage houses, and law firms are gearing up for the creation and regulation of new financial products that will be available to the general public starting later this year.  

New research in Symbolic Interaction explores the strategies career women adopt to avoid becoming ‘leftover women’ in China’s marriage market

From: Drug Testing and Analysis

Whether it’s Islamic terrorists in the Middle East or the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians or the violence done by religious extremists in the United States, why does religion too often lead to lethal results? This book will give readers not just a picture of the problems but a vision of a hopeful way forward that does not ignore their distinctive worldviews but that works with them.

Devalued and Distrusted: Can the Pharmaceutical Industry Restore Its Broken Image?  offers a balanced view of the role of drug discovery in improving public health.

Ever seen a human face on a piece of toast or in a cloud? This illusionary effect is known as pareidolia and scientists writing in Applied Cognitive Psychology claim you’re more prone to seeing faces if you’re a religious or paranormal believer. The team found believer groups were better at identifying previously defined face-like regions in images, but were also prone to false alarms. Signal detection analysis revealed that believers had more liberal answering criteria than skeptics, but the actual detection sensitivity did not differ. The paranormal believers also evaluated the artifact faces as more face-like and emotional than the skeptics.

The ‘revolving door’ between public office and corporate board rooms is often cited as a threat to the democratic process. New research, published in Political Studies, explores the earnings of politicians who take jobs in corporations when they retire and finds that ministers from the Treasury, Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defense develop the strongest corporate connections.