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APF grant funds longitudinal research on adoption and same-sex couples
Psychology professor Rachel Farr, PhD, is conducting the first longitudinal comparison of adoptive families of lesbian, gay and heterosexual parents with school-age children.Helping air traffic controllers
Arathi Sethumadhavan, PhD, studied the cognitive and social issues involved in human-automation interaction in the domain of air traffic control. Her research was supported by APF Graduate Student Scholarships.
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From Psychology Giving
- Boosting early career psychologists (March 2013)
- Funding solutions to social problems (March 2013)
- Paving the way for psychology's future (November 2012)
- Stopping stigma at its roots: Promoting mental health education in middle schools (November 2012)
From The Monitor on Psychology
- Big ideas for challenging times (April 2013)
- Committed to kids' well-being (February 2013)
- Grants and opportunities (May 2013)
- How does insight help gifted children? (March 2013)
- Overcoming a fear of mental illness (May 2013)

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