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How Much Time Should Teenagers Spend Online?
As technology evolves and our lives become increasingly digital, deciding how much teenagers should spend online is a difficult problem for any concerned parent. While much has been said about the potential detrimental effects of spending too much time on the internet, a new study has found that teens who spend time online are better at coping with stress. The research, published in Clinical Psychological Science, studied 200 adolescents aged 13-17 living in low socioeconomic settings. The participants were given iPhones to use as they would their own phones.
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Colleges Have a Guy Problem
American colleges and universities now enroll roughly six women for every four men. This is the largest female-male gender gap in the history of higher education, and it’s getting wider. Last year, U.S. colleges enrolled 1.5 million fewer students than five years ago, The Wall Street Journal recently reported. Men accounted for more than 70 percent of the decline. The statistics are stunning. But education experts and historians aren’t remotely surprised. Women in the United States have earned more bachelor’s degrees than men every year since the mid-1980s—every year, in other words, that I’ve been alive. This particular gender gap hasn’t been breaking news for about 40 years.
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Psychological Interventions for the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Adults
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 22, Number 2)Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Some people experience pain that persists for an extended time or even for their entire lives. Chronic pain has negative consequences beyond physical suffering, also affecting well-being, emotional functioning, and overall quality of life. The high prevalence of chronic pain, its undertreatment, and its societal burden make chronic pain a serious public-health concern. In this issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 22, Issue 2), Mary A. Driscoll, Robert R. Edwards, William C. Becker, Ted J. Kaptchuk, and Robert D.
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Most Syrian Refugees Yearn to Return Home—but Those Who Want to Migrate West Are Least Likely to Hold Extremist Views
Research shows Syrian refugees were significantly more motivated to return home than to emigrate to the West. Those who were motivated to emigrate were the least likely to endorse extreme religious and political views.
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Breaking the Prejudice Habit
This resource is dedicated to breaking the habit of prejudice and discrimination. The Awareness Harmony Acceptance Advocates believe in working together to overcome these social issues by spreading awareness of the problem, establishing harmony between groups, and promoting acceptance of differences.
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The Point of the Cruelty
When a reporter asked Richard Daley, then the mayor of Chicago, whether his gun-control policies were effective, Daley pointed to a rifle and shouted, “If I put this up your butt, you’ll find out how effective this is!” Rahm Emanuel, a political operative who would also go on to become mayor of Chicago, mailed a dead fish to a pollster who had delivered results late. Tony Banks, a member of the U.K. Parliament, once publicly said that another member was “living proof that a pig’s bladder on a stick can be elected to Parliament.” In many workplaces, those sorts of comments and actions could cost people their jobs.
