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Teens Unlikely to Be Harmed by Moderate Digital Screen Use
New findings from over 120,000 adolescents in the UK indicate that the relationship between screen time and well-being is weak at best, even at high levels of digital engagement.
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Children Gain More Weight When Parents See Them as ‘Overweight’
Children whose parents considered them to be ‘overweight’ gained more weight over the following decade compared with those whose parents thought they were ‘normal weight,’ according to data from two nationally representative studies.
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Fun Workplaces Also Promote Learning
A growing body of research has shown that fun in the workplace has important consequences for learning and motivation.
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NIH-Funded Course on “Strengthening Casual Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”
The University of Alabama at Birmingham invites you to join their NIH-funded short course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research,” scheduled to take place Monday through Friday, July 24–28, 2017. The program aims to help attendees better identify causal relations among variables that lead to obesity and discern avenues for treatment and prevention. The nine course modules are designed to provide rigorous exposure to the key fundamental principles underlying a broad array of techniques. Limited travel scholarships are available to young investigators and the application deadline is March 31st, 2017.
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How After-Hours Emails Might Hurt Your Health
Technology has allowed many workers to enjoy greater flexibility with where and when they work, but it also means that the boundaries between work and leisure can become blurred.
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New Research in Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: The Role of Hedonic Behavior in Reducing Perceived Risk: Evidence From Postearthquake Mobile-App Data Jayson S. Jia, Jianmin Jia, Christopher K. Hsee, and Baba Shiv How does experiencing a disaster affect people's daily behaviors? To study this, the researchers followed participants who had experienced the Ya'an earthquake, which occurred on April 20, 2013, in southwest China. The researchers used phone data to examine telecommunications and app usage in the timeframe before and after the earthquake. One week after the earthquake, a subset of participants reported how threatened they currently felt by the earthquake.
