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"Neighbourhood B"

Social attitudes of neighborhoods can be inherited within minutes of a visit

Spending as little as 45 minutes in a high-crime, deprived neighborhood can have measurable effects on people’s trust in others and their feelings of paranoia. In this study, it was found that students who visited high crime neighborhoods quickly developed a level of trust and paranoia comparable to the residents of that neighborhood, and significantly different from that in more low-crime neighborhoods. Read more in this peer-reviewed article,

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