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Changing the nation's diet (highlight)
Researchers should focus more on the unhealthful food-industry practices and marketing strategies that make us fat, said psychologist Kelly D. Brownell.
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Ethical dilemmas of MySpace (highlight)
Social media Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace have complicated the lives of psychologists, psychology professors and graduate students.
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Upside to video games? (highlight)
Psychologists at the University of California, Davis, say that conflict within the family appears to affect Asian Americans more adversely than other negative factors, such as depression or poverty—to the point of increasing their risk of suicide.
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Psychology's mythbusters (highlight)
Bystander apathy. Sugar highs. Psychologists talked about countering some common myths related to psychology.
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Saving strategies (news coverage)
Americans are better at saving money when they set goals in the near future -- such as next month -- rather than the more distant future, according to a new study by researchers at Rice University and Old Dominion University.
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Personality and aging (highlight)
How reliable, kind and goal-oriented you are may determine how well you age, said Oregon State University psychologist Karen Hooker, PhD, at an APA Annual Convention invited address on Sunday.
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Kids’ lies can fool adults (news coverage)
New research shows that children are able to fool adults quite readily when it comes to believing that a real event did not actually happen. But adults were a bit better at sniffing out the truth when a child lied about a false event.
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Resilience in black children (report)
African-American youth have proven they can bounce back after facing adversity, yet the majority of studies still focus on the negative outcomes of risk factors, according to a report released today by APA’s Task Force on Resilience and Strength in Black Children and Adolescents.
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More news

Sunday, August 17 highlights: Personality and aging; driving and antidepressants; upside to video games; resilience in black children; college student suicide; emotional and mood disorder treatment; giving psychology away; gender identity.
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Saturday, August 16 highlights: Jobs for early-career; how to be happy; psychology's mythbusters; web site preview; hope as depression prevention; student honesty; 21st birthday drinking; trauma of immigration raids.
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Friday, August 15, highlights: Changing the nation's diet; adolescent depression; ethical dilemmas of MySpace; violence and the brain; Q&A with Robert Sternberg; stress-busters; solving global challenges.
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Thursday, August 14 highlights: Malcolm Gladwell keynote; ear infections and obesity; thinking green; astronaut mental health; ADHD treatment; deploying repeatedly; gender-variant people; stress worsens allergies; advice for young psychologists; spending habits.
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Pre-convention highlights: Opening session; APA ethics and interrogation guidelines (audio); Campus violence; Boston attractions; Courage in relationships; Exhibit Hall; APA president on psychology's environmental impact (audio); the popularity of majoring in psychology (audio).
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