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Is Violence Declining? APS Fellow Steven Pinker Says “Yes”
Violence is as an inherent part of human society. So if you looked at the number of violent deaths from prehistory to the present day, you would expect to see a pretty steady trend, right? Not so, says APS Fellow Steven Pinker. “Violence has been in decline for thousands of years,” he says. “We may be living in the most peaceful era in our species’ existence.” Pinker, who is a psychological scientist from Harvard University, collected his research on the subject in a new book called The Better Angels of Our Nature. He discussed the book in a recent lecture at Politics and Prose, a bookstore in Washington DC.
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CogSci 2012
CogSci 2012 is the 34th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, to be held in Sapporo, Japan, Wednesday, August 1 - Saturday August 4, 2012. For more information visit: http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2012/index.html
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Europlat 2012
The European Psychology Learning and Teaching Conference will be held 28-30 June 2012 at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania The conference is organized by the European Academic Network for Psychology Learning and Teaching (Europlat). Abstract submission deadline: 5 January 2012 For more information visit: http://www.europlat.org/s.php?p=3
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42nd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society
The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society will be held May 31-June 2, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. The theme will be Rethinking Cognitive Development. For more information visit: http://www.piaget.org/conference.html
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National Academy of Neuropsychology 31st Annual Conference
The National Academy of Neuropsychology 31st Annual Conference will be held November 16-29, 2011 in Marco Island, Florida. For more information visit: http://nanonline.org/NAN/Conference/Conference.aspx
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How Effective Are Mentoring Programs for Youth? A Systematic Assessment of the Evidence
Read the Full Text Be it a parent, teacher, coach, or family friend, there’s no question that an adult can serve as a powerful role model for a youth in the transition from childhood to adulthood. Mentoring programs across the United States have tried to harness the power of such positive role models in the hopes that relationships with adult mentors will support kids’ socioemotional and cognitive development. But are mentoring programs really effective? And do all programs have equally positive effects?
