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Special Issue of Early Education and Development
The goal of the special issue Social and Emotional Learning in Early Education is to explore more deeply the role of social and emotional learning (SEL) in the development of 3- to 6-year-olds and programming efforts in classroom settings. Susan E. Rivers & Marc A. Brackett will be guest editors. The submission deadline is June 1, 2012. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10409289.2011.628606
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5th FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference
The 5th FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference will be held October 19-20, 2012 at UCLA. The theme will be Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications. For more information visit: http://www.thefpr.org/conference2012/index.php
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Facebook can alienate people further – study
The Sydney Morning Herald: Facebook can help you accumulate hundreds of instant friends, but people with low self-esteem should limit their woeful comments or risk losing their cyber pals, a study reports. While the social media site is a convenient outlet to share feelings and maintain friendships, researchers have found people who had a poor opinion of themselves were more likely to post negative messages that irritated their existing online friends and alienated themselves further.
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Distraction Reduces Pain, Study Finds
Yahoo!: When you distract yourself from pain, you actually hurt less, a new study suggests. Study participants who were subjected to slight pain on their forearms reported less discomfort when they were asked to perform a distracting mental test as the pain was delivered. Moreover, when participants were given a placebo "pain relief" cream, and distracted at the same time, their pain was even more reduced. "Both placebo and distraction are effective mechanisms for reducing pain. You can combine them and you don't lose anything," said study researcher Jason Buhle, who conducted the research as part of his doctoral dissertation from Columbia University.
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Les réseaux sociaux rendent plus accro que la cigarette
Le Parisien: Le besoin de vérifier ses courriels ou son statut Facebook serait plus pressant que celui de fumer. C’est l’étonnant résultat d’une étude réalisée en Allemagne sur le contrôle des désirs, qui sera prochainement publiée dans la très sérieuse revue « Psychological Science ». Ainsi, les 205 personnes interrogées ont eu peu de mal à réfréner leurs envies de tabac ou de café. En revanche, les pulsions de se connecter aux réseaux sociaux sont parmi les plus difficiles à repousser. Read the whole story: Le Parisien
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You May Be Discriminating Against Your Coworkers And You Don’t Even Know It
Business Insider: People with easier-to-pronounce names have a better chance of being favored and even getting promotions than those with names that don't flow as well (via BusinessWire). According to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, names that were easier to pronounce were viewed more positively and even helped in voting ballots compared to names that were more difficult to say aloud.
