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The Decade of Behavior's Sept. 25 launch highlighted promising research spanning the breadth of social and behavioral science and touched on the five themes central to the initiative: health, education, safety, prosperity and democracy. The event featured 13 exhibitors:
A school-based intervention to reduce violence: INSIGHTS into children's temperament. Sandee McClowry, PhD, RN, division of nursing, school of education, New York University, in partnership with New York City Community School District Number 5.
Building on and building up students' mathematical thinking: Research-based professional development for improving mathematics teaching and learning. Thomas P. Carpenter, PhD, School of Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Developing healthy lifestyles among adolescent girls: Mimi Nichter, PhD, department of anthropology, University of Arizona.
Indian by birth: The Lumbee dialect: Walt Wolfram, PhD, department of English, North Carolina State University.
Market principles of price discovery: Charles Plott, PhD, division of humanities and social sciences, California Institute of Technology.
Research-based principles of student learning: John Bransford, PhD, Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University.
SES, health and economic behavior: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study. Robert Willis, PhD, and F. Thomas Juster, PhD, department of economics and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
Smoking cessation and nicotine dependence in African Americans: A research program: Jasjit Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, departments of preventive medicine and internal medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine.
Social networks and the use of treatment systems: Bernice Pescosolido, PhD, department of sociology, Indiana University.
Stress in pregnancy and effects on the offspring throughout the life span: Christine Dunkel-Schetter, PhD, department of psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, and Marci Lobel, PhD, department of psychology, State University of New YorkStony Brook.
Using human factors to build an efficient and safe future aviation system: Raja Parasuraman, PhD, department of psychology, The Catholic University of America.
Using technology to integrate behavioral research and teaching: The case of crime and punishment. Kent Portney, PhD, department of political science, Tufts University, and Steve Cohen, PhD, director of instructional technology assessment, Tufts University.
Youth and civil society: Constance Flanagan, PhD, College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University.
--S. CARPENTER
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