Celebrating 70 Years
By Francine Barone HRAF turns 70 years old this month! The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) celebrated its official 70th birthday on May 7, 2019, but its origins go back much longer than that. In…
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How do parents around the world teach children to control their anger?
By Francine Barone What do you do when a child throws a temper tantrum? Enabling young children to control their emotions – especially anger – is a challenge that all parents face. From deciding the…
Surviving Winter Weather
By Francine Barone Here in New England, a deep freeze has blanketed homes and streets with snow and ice this winter, making for treacherous and exhausting conditions including power outages, frozen plumbing and unending traffic…
Trick or treat: Ghosts, demons and zombies found in eHRAF
By Francine Barone Happy Halloween! It’s the time of year for ghastly ghouls, wicked witches and terrifying things that go bump in the night. From haunted houses to headless horsemen, there are many spooky legends…
“I have worth”: female body confidence and perceptions of beauty around the world
By Francine Barone Based on interviews of 10,500 women – including 5,165 girls aged 10 to 17 – in 13 countries worldwide The Dove Global Beauty and Confidence Report (2017) investigates the current state of female…
Our Better Nature: Resource Stress and Sharing Practices
There is enormous interest in the evolution of cooperation in both the animal kingdom and among humans. This focus on cooperative behavior is a necessary corrective to longstanding emphasis on competition in evolutionary models. Some…
Board Meeting 2018: New Directions
Among the many highlights of the meeting, Matt Roth in IT offered a demonstration of new HRAF functions for saving searches and notes that the IT team (including Doug Black, Leon Doyon, and Fran Barone)…
Hunter-Gatherer Resources from HRAF
By Francine Barone Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) has an ever-expanding collection of resources on hunter-gatherers and foragers. Indeed, hunter-gathering is one of the most popular subsistence types in the eHRAF databases. This post will…
Our Global Scholarship Application is Live!
As an organization dedicated to disseminating cultural information and research on human diversity, the Human Relations Area Files greatly values diversity in our membership base. We are therefore proud to present a new scholarship program,…
A Heartfelt Welcome to Our Newest Members!
This year, HRAF welcomes new member institutions from across the world—with universities in Turkey, France, and Canada.