Category Archives: Gender

Unequal depression for equal work?

Current doctoral students Jonathan Platt and Seth Prins, along with Cluster faculty Lisa Bates and Katherine Keyes recently reported that structural workplace discrimination, measured as the presence of a gender wage gap, largely explained higher rates of mood disorders among … Continue reading

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Why are kids reporting that they prefer more dangerous and risky activities than they did 30 years ago?

Katherine Keyes weighs in on her latest paper describing 30 year trends in adolescent risk preference. The graph below shows the yearly trend in a trait termed ‘risk preference’, spanning the last 30 years among adolescents in the United States. … Continue reading

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