roommates

According to two recent studies, randomly assigned roommates of different races are more likely to experience conflicts so strained that one roommate will move out.

An Indiana University study found that interracial roommates were three times as likely as two white roommates to no longer live together by the end of the semester.

The RA said that these conflicts have also occurred among roommates of the same race

Interracial roommates are more likely to fall out.

Roommates of different races just don't get along

The school randomly assigns roommates without regard to race

Some 14% of young adults lived alone, were a single parent or lived with one or more roommates.

The properly-named startup "Morning-After Maids", was launched about a month ago in Auckland by roommates Rebecca Foley and Catherine Arthurs.

Russell Fazio, an Ohio State psychology professor who has studied interracial roommates there and at Indiana University, discovered an intriguing academic effect.

That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.

At Indiana University, where housing was not so tight, more interracial roommates split up," he said

Fazio's Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assigned interracial roommates were no longer living together at the end of the semester, compared with white roommates.

The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs.

What did the study find about randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State University

Fazio find interesting about interracial roommates who had lived together for 10 weeks?

They broke up more often than same-race roommates

As they left student life behind, many had a last drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and moved out of small apartments into high buildings.