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Open-mindedness predicts racial, political, and socioeconomic diversity of real-world friendship networks
Full text linkThis is the accepted version of the article that was published in the journal Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. The full published version may be found at https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302251324887. This version may be used for non-commercial purposes only and may not be altered or transformed.Even in environments offering ample opportunities to interact with people from diverse backgrounds, people differ in their tendency to form intergroup friendships. Whereas some develop intergroup friendships, others prefer befriending ingroup members, contributing to prejudice and polarization. We identify open-mindedness—an inclination to engage with and understand different perspectives—as an individual difference predicting the racial, political, and socioeconomic diversity of real-world friendship networks. In a longitudinal study of 1,423 eighth–ninth graders, more open-minded adolescents developed more racially diverse friendship networks over 2 years. Two additional studies (total N = 1,585 adults) replicated and extended this finding: Open-mindedness predicted greater racial, political, and socioeconomic diversity of friends, and was more consistently associated with friendship diversity than Big Five openness to experience. The associations between open-mindedness and friendship diversity were partly explained by open-minded individuals’ lower avoidance of interaction with outgroup members. Building open-mindedness may be one individual-level approach to promote friendships across divides
Makahaiwaʻa - UH West Oʻahu's Weekly Newsletter - Week of May 12, 2025
No full textA Communications Department newsletter from University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu published on Monday, May 12, 2025, to the faculty and staff listserv.A web preservation file has been captured for this newsletter in addition to the PDF. Contact the UHWO Library for access
When Cultural Exchanges Go Awry: Korea-Japan Relations and Popular Culture
Full text linkCopyright © 2025 John Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Georgetown Journal of International Affairs volume 26: Number 1 (2025), 117-123. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press.This article looks at the soft power relations of Korean popular culture in postwar Japan and Korea, taking the 2011 appearance of Korean groups at the NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen (NHK Red and White Song Festival), a televised nationwide New Year's Eve music program in Japan, as an example. What was supposed to be a media event of international friendship sparked an online right-wing nationalist backlash, illustrating how soft power can have the opposite effect if it runs counter to the prevailing political and social climate. Although this criticism represented a minority of Japanese and stood in contrast to support from female fans, K-pop acts disappeared from the Kōhaku until 2017 and only reappeared on the program when they began adapting to social and political realities. The negative reaction of Japanese online nationalists illustrates how soft power, while serving as a powerful tool of mutual connection, can backfire in unfavorable social and political conditions. In times of deteriorating relations, music's close relation to a country's national pride becomes more pronounced than its role as a unifying tool
Makahaiwaʻa - UH West Oʻahu's Weekly Newsletter - Week of March 24, 2025
No full textA Communications Department newsletter from University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu published on Monday, March 24, 2025, to the faculty and staff listserv.A web preservation file has been captured for this newsletter in addition to the PDF. Contact the UHWO Library for access
Photographic guide to the leaf litter arthropod community of the lowland wet forest ecosystem of the Island of Hawaiʻi
No full textLeaf litter arthropods are important components of the food web in forests, and their presence and diversity can provide information on forest health. There has been very little documentation of the leaf litter arthropods in Hawaiian forest ecosystems. This technical report is a photographic guide to some common arthropods collected from forest leaf litter at the Liko Nā Pilina Hybrid Ecosystems Project study site, a lowland wet forest in Hilo, Island of Hawaiʻi, USA. Leaf litter samples were collected from plots of invaded and experimental restoration communities using two complementary methods (litterbags and quadrats), and arthropods were extracted using Berlese funnels. The field site contained many morphospecies that were rare and locally distributed across plots, and only a few that were very common and widely distributed. The majority of the morphospecies identified were mites. This photoguide is designed to help identify arthropods found in plant litter in Hawaiian lowland forests and it may assist with research and education efforts concerned with the diversity, ecology, or conservation of litter arthropods across the Hawaiian archipelago and other Pacific islands
Makahaiwaʻa - UH West Oʻahu's Weekly Newsletter - Week of February 06, 2025
No full textA Communications Department newsletter from University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu published on Monday, February 03, 2025, to the faculty and staff listserv.A web preservation file has been captured for this newsletter in addition to the PDF. Contact the UHWO Library for access
Pyracrenic acid induces oxidative stress-mediated mitochondrial dysfunction in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by modulating the PI3K/AKT/GSK3Β pathway leading to caspase-dependent and -independent cellular death
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Makahaiwaʻa - UH West Oʻahu's Weekly Newsletter - Week of February 24, 2025
No full textA Communications Department newsletter from University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu published on Monday, February 24, 2025, to the faculty and staff listserv.A web preservation file has been captured for this newsletter in addition to the PDF. Contact the UHWO Library for access
