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Space Daily
April 13, 2018
A group of psychologists say scientists will never make contact with aliens because aliens are likely to use communications based on unknown physical principles. They also say scientists are prone to so-called inattentional blindness. A group of psychologists from the University of Cadiz in Spain hasÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 13, 2018
copied! Catholic Church guidelines call for potential priests to be given psychological assessments before entering religious life. But what are churches really looking for?Apr.10.2018. Read More. Recommended For You. Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, 57 years ago today. 02:17. Are U.S. students ready for aÃâà...
CBS17.com
April 12, 2018
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) - In an effort to provide more support to students, the Wake County Public School System plans to spend more money next year on school counselors, social workers, and psychologists. Many of the support staff employees split time between schools. Some counselors are full-time atÃâà...
Inc.com
April 12, 2018
It's one of the best ways to avoid the dreaded "choke." According to psychologists, a big part of the reason why athletes or CEOs stumble under pressure is because they haven't prepared for stressful situations. When stress hormones kick in--triggering our flight or fight response--people get nervous, tight,Ãâà...
WCNC.com
April 12, 2018
Cabarrus County Schools has 18 school psychologists for its 39 schools, averaging one per every 1,800 students. Just across the border in Fort Mill, South Carolina, the school district is exceeding recommendations. Although they are one of the smaller school districts in our area, they employ 15 schoolÃâà...
Winston-Salem Journal
April 7, 2018
For school psychologists Amy Clay, Abby Flynn and Angela Smith, there isn't really such a thing as a normal day. Psychologists in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools district have a wide array of responsibilities, such as psychological evaluations for students and participating in threat assessments,Ãâà...
Scientific American
March 20, 2018
One obvious way to make that connection is through mental health professionals—such as therapists, psychologists and social workers. About a third of those who commit suicide had come into contact with mental health services in the year before they died—and about a fifth had done so during the past month. Yet thereÃâà...
Live Science
March 20, 2018
There was something wrong with psychology. A cascade of warning signs arrived all at once in 2011. Famous psychological experiments failed, over and over, when researchers re-did them in their own labs. Even worse, the standard methods researchers used in their labs turned out under close scrutinyÃâà...
Inside NoVA
March 1, 2018
Board Chairman Ryan Sawyers announced immediately after the Parkland tragedy that he would be proposing a substantial hiring surge in new school counselors and psychologists. At the board's work session, he asked division officials for a cost estimate on his ambitious proposal, which would raiseÃâà...
Pacific Northwest Inlander (blog)
March 1, 2018
A group of Eastern Washington University students are pushing lawmakers in the Washington state Senate to pass a bill that would clearly define the roles of school counselors, social workers and psychologists so they can better be used to screen students for mental health issues and offer preventive care.
WLRN
February 28, 2018
Florida lawmakers are debating several measures aimed at preventing mass shootings, and some law enforcement officials are calling for another one: Making it easier to detain certain people suffering from mental illness. But the leader of the state's largest psychologist lobbying group cautions that unfairlyÃâà...
Miami Herald
February 28, 2018
Just two days after the Parkland massacre, a couple of high school girls were injured by a drive-by shooting outside Middleton High School in Tampa. Sen. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, visited the school shortly after to see what he could do. He said he was shocked to learn the school's 1,600 studentsÃâà...
The Mighty
February 21, 2018
Why did this happen? What did we miss? How can we prevent it from happening again? To get some answers, or at least some insights, we talked to psychologists who have expertise in violence and its effect on communities. Here are five things psychologists want you to know after a mass shooting.
Los Angeles Times
February 18, 2018
You know a friendship is in trouble when you consult a social psychologist to help figure it out. Two days after President Trump reportedly made his remarks about immigrants from "shithole countries," and one day after we learned that one of his lawyers paid a porn star $130,000 in hush money to keepÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 16, 2018
Why Psychologists and Doctors Can't Diagnose Mass Murderers. The guidelines used to diagnose mental illness don't offer a way to predict whether someone will commit mass murder. By Anna Laffrey, Contributor. Feb. 16, 2018, at 2:56 p.m.. By Anna Laffrey, Contributor Feb. 16, 2018, at 2:56 p.m.. U.S. News & WorldÃâà...
Science Daily
December 31, 1999
Date: April 9, 2018; Source: University of California - Riverside; Summary: Psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists show that bilinguals who are highly proficient in their second language, such as international students who have come to the United States to pursue higher education, can not only overcome the difficultyÃâà...
Manhattan Mercury
December 31, 1999
At the center of this dual biography are Israeli-American psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Kahneman received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his role in creating the field of behavioral economics. Tversky was winner of a MacArthur Award and might also have receivedÃâà...
Tribune-Review
December 31, 1999
About 60 school psychologists from about 30 schools across southwest Pennsylvania gathered at Duquesne University this week to learn crisis prevention and recovery techniques. The training included ways to identify students who might need extra mental health support, helping students recover from aÃâà...
WUNC
December 31, 1999
Representatives from the NC School Psychology Association and the NC School Counselor Association say that school counselors, nurses, social workers and psychologists are meant to provide a multi-tiered system of support to students. But right now, they say they're doing the best they can with aÃâà...
Reader's Digest
December 31, 1999
Not everyone is born bursting with sunshine, but this intel can bring us all a little closer to our happy place. Listen to melancholy music. Asian guy listening music by headphones Rawpixel.com/ShutterstockYou heard that right! You officially have another excuse to listen to Adele on repeat (as if you even needed oneÃâà...
WDTN
December 31, 1999
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – A phenomenon known as the “copycat effect” is prompting arrests and heightened security at schools across the United States, following the killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Psychologists have been studying the pattern of threats andÃâà...
