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PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire
Home // News & Events // Psychology Newswire News & Events Contact APA Office of Public Affairs PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire Prescription drug abuse tied to increased risk of teen suicide August 15, 2016, Fox News Suicide is a leading cause of death for teens worldwide, and the odds of suicide attempts may be higher when adolescents abuse prescription drugs. RSS Feed How the placebo effect could boost an Olympic performance August 14, 2016, NPR Treatments that lack hard evidence of benefit might prove a competitive edge if the athletes believe they work. Why bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists August 12, 2016, The Washington Post Why bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists, and other things the Olympics teaches us about human emotions. More than a third of female students 'have mental health problems' August 11, 2016, BBC News Development of policies and anti-stigma campaigns is beginning to address willingness to access mental health services. News from APA
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Why Flunking Exams Is Actually a Good Thing
Photo Imagine that on Day 1 of a difficult course, before you studied a single thing, you got hold of the final exam. The motherlode itself, full text, right there in your email inbox — attached mistakenly by the teacher, perhaps, or poached by a campus hacker. Would that help you study more effectively? But what if, instead, you took a test on Day 1 that was just as comprehensive as the final but not a replica? This is the idea behind pretesting, one of the most exciting developments in learning-science. That is: The (bombed) pretest drives home the information in a way that studying as usual does not. The excitement around prefinals is rooted in the fact that the tests appear to improve subsequent performance in topics that are not already familiar, whether geography, sociology or psychology. The basic insight is as powerful as it is surprising: Testing might be the key to studying, rather than the other way around. Yet another species of exam collapse is far more common. a. b. c.
Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology - Home Page
YouTube Channel for Psychology Videos (including many social psychology videos) - Steven Ross has started an excellent compendium of video clips from movies, TV shows, advertisements, news programs, and other sources. It is well organized in playlists to find video clips in many areas of psychology. Making Connections -- Bridging psychological concepts and social issues -- Created by Susan Goldstein and colleagues, this site "was designed to provide instructors with psychological research findings and other scholarly information on specific social issues and assist them, both pedagogically and conceptually, in linking those social issues to the psychological constructs and theories discussed in their classes.
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Aspirin may cut colon cancer risk by 60%
Taking two aspirins a day reduced the risk of colorectal cancer by more than 60% in people with a family history of the disease, a large study shows. "This is one more piece of evidence that there are some very positive effects of aspirin, and it should be considered very seriously for people who are at risk of colorectal cancer," says Tim Bishop, one of the authors of the study and a professor of epidemiology at Leeds University in England. Observational studies have shown that aspirin lowers the risk of developing colorectal cancer, but this is the first randomized controlled trial to find the effect. Researchers from the Universities of Newcastle and Leeds in England followed almost 1,000 patients from 43 medical centers in 16 countries. The patients all had Lynch syndrome, a genetic condition that predisposes people to develop colorectal cancer and other types of cancer. "If I had a family history of bowel cancer, I would feel quite strongly about taking aspirin regularly," he says.
