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2021 RAND Summer Institute
The 28th Annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI) will take place July 12–15 in Santa Monica, CA. The RSI will consist of two conferences addressing critical issues facing aging populations: Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists and a Workshop on the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging. Application Deadline: March 15, 2021 Interested researchers can apply for financial support covering travel and accommodations. More information and the application form is available on the RAND website.
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Behavioral Science Central in NIH Disparities Workshop
The NIH Virtual Disparities Workshop, held November 9–10, aimed to bring together mental health disparities researchers to present their work and share their approaches to understanding health disparities.
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Advise NIH on Fostering Innovative Research to Improve Mental Health Outcomes Among Minority and Health Disparities Populations
The National Institute of Mental Health is requesting information on research priorities to improve mental health outcomes among minority and health disparities populations in the U.S.
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Losses. Loom. Large. And That, in Short, Explains Your Loss Aversion.
Kai Ruggeri is an assistant professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and he has a proposition for you. Would you like a guaranteed $90? Or a 90% chance of $100? I personally went with the guaranteed $90. (I didn’t get the actual money this is conceptual!) And so would most people. For getting only ten more dollars, we wouldn’t risk the other 90, even with those odds. “When the differences are small, we don’t like to take risks with gains (but we do for losses),” Ruggeri said. “When the differences become larger, that changes,” he said, armed with a new set of propositions. ...
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Despite Stronger Vetting and Sampling, Certain Psychological Research Results Elude Replication
A new series of replication attempts that accounted for possible earlier shortcomings also fell short, suggesting other variables are thwarting replication in certain cases.
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RDoC at 10: Sharpening the Science of Mental Health Disorders
Launched in 2009, the RDoC framework integrates many levels of information spanning the full range of human behavior to better understand the nature of mental health and illness.
