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  • 1. Academic reputations among peers predict academic success
    Peers are good judges of their classmates' academic skills and may serve as an important source of feedback in school performance.
    (September 2005)
  • 2. Briefing promotes incorporating eating disorders into obesity legislation
    Any attempt to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent eating disorders must be comprehensive and include education about nutrition and physical activity, and it must encourage open communication about body image and self-esteem.
    (September 2005)
  • 3. Plastic surgery: Beauty or beast?
    Cosmetic surgery is booming, but what's the mental cost of changing your appearance? Psychologists look to fill in the research gaps.
    (September 2005)
  • 4. Closer connections
    Undergraduate programs are seeking to build closer-knit communities for students to prevent burnout, dropouts and anxiety. Here's how.
    (September 2005)
  • 5. Hughes's germ phobia revealed in psychological autopsy
    Howard Hughes--the billionaire aviator, motion-picture producer and business tycoon--spent most of his life trying to avoid germs. Toward the end of his life, he lay naked in bed in darkened hotel rooms in what he considered a germ-free zone.
    (July 2005)
  • 6. Family support aids treatment for agoraphobics
    The way a family member talks about the loved one who has agoraphobia can indicate whether that person will succeed in treatment or drop out early.
    (July 2005)
  • 7. Publicizing diabetes' behavioral impact
    As incoming president of the American Diabetes Association, Richard Rubin plans to emphasize diabetes' emotional side.
    (July 2005)
  • 8. Stemming social phobia
    Psychologist Richard Heimberg seeks to improve the staying power of social phobia treatments by combining therapy with medication.
    (July 2005)
  • 9. Taking on policy
    Two psychologists bring their behavioral background to public health policy issues at the IOM.
    (July 2005)
  • 10. When health fears hurt health
    Some people neglect their health because of phobias about dentists, needles, diseases and germs. But psychological interventions show promise in treating such fears.
    (July 2005)
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