Author: Jennifer Anderson

Jennifer Anderson is a professional journalist specializing in health and science. She can be reached at jennifer_anderson@verizon.net

Finding Right With Wrong: Improving STEM Performance in US Schools
News
December 3, 2015

Finding Right With Wrong: Improving STEM Performance in US Schools

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Improving STEM and Attracting Students through Cognitive Science
PIBBS
November 10, 2015

Improving STEM and Attracting Students through Cognitive Science

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Restoring Self-Worth Encourages Healthy Behaviors
PIBBS
August 26, 2015

Restoring Self-Worth Encourages Healthy Behaviors

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Seeing Others as Fully Human
PIBBS
August 3, 2015

Seeing Others as Fully Human

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Want Better Health and Longevity?  Invest in Education

Want Better Health and Longevity? Invest in Education

Education — even more so than spending on health — correlates with a longer life, according to research reported in the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.’

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Social Rejection—Who Knew?

Social Rejection—Who Knew?

New research in ‘Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences’ finds that being left out and ignored causes more pain and emotional damage than any overt forms of abuse.

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Putting the Detective Work in Lie Detection

Putting the Detective Work in Lie Detection

Combining a little detective work on what some says — even more so than how they say it — gives an advantage in detecting a liar.

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Negotiating Deals and Settling Conflict Benefit Both Sides

Negotiating Deals and Settling Conflict Benefit Both Sides

There are no short cuts in high-stakes negotiations, researchers write the Policy Insights from the Brain and Behavioral Sciences, but by nurturing mutual respect and promoting benign, low-pressure environments the results can benefit all sides.

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Input from Social and Behavioral Scientists Essential in Energy-Use Reduction Policy Making

Input from Social and Behavioral Scientists Essential in Energy-Use Reduction Policy Making

Research shows people generally prefer being green to being greedy, but even if people are motivated, they don’t always know how to reduce energy use or, if they make a behavioral change, whether the change helped them reach their energy saving goals.

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Discrimination through Ambiguity: Reducing Workplace Bias Against Minority Immigrants

Discrimination through Ambiguity: Reducing Workplace Bias Against Minority Immigrants

Discrimination becomes easier when its wrapped in the amorphous blanket of an applicant lacking certain ‘soft skills,’ suggests a news paper in the journal Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

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Racial Bias and the Criminal Justice System: Research for a Fairer Future

Racial Bias and the Criminal Justice System: Research for a Fairer Future

In the aftermath of the grand jury decision not to prosecute a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen, a paper in a new journal from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences looks at the bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.

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