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International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting
The next Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology will be held July 6 – 9, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. For more information visit: http://ispp.org/meetings/
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XVIII Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies
The XVIII Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies will be held June 7 - 9, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more information visit: www.isisweb.org/view/0/conference2012.html
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Fragmented Sleep, Fragmented Mind: A New Theory of Sleep Disruption and Dissociation
This summary has been removed. The original research article on which it is based, “Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: Challenging Conventional Wisdom,” remains published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, available to journal subscribers and members of APS.
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The Dubious Science of Online Dating
The New York Times: How scientific are the “matching algorithms” of online-dating Web sites? For a fee, many dating sites will collect data about you, crunch the numbers and match you with someone who, as eHarmony puts it, has been “prescreened for deep compatibility with you across 29 dimensions.” Sites like Chemistry, PerfectMatch and GenePartner make similar scientific-sounding claims. But can a mathematical formula really identify pairs of singles who are especially likely to have a successful romantic relationship? We believe the answer is no. It’s hard to be certain, since the sites have not disclosed their algorithms.
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Looking for Facebook friends? Keep it positive
Discovery News: Updating your Facebook status with the torrid details of your bad day? Think twice: People with low self-esteem who post negative details about their lives on Facebook may find their online friends diminishing. Amanda Forest, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, had expected that a new study, which she and her adviser, Joanne Wood, recently had published in Psychological Science, would show that Facebook promoted stronger relationships for those with low self-esteem. Instead, the researchers found that too many negative posts can cause social harm.
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Should Sugar Be Regulated like Alcohol and Tobacco?
TIME: Sugar poses enough health risks that it should be considered a controlled substance just like alcohol and tobacco, contend a team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In an opinion piece called “The Toxic Truth About Sugar” that was published Feb. 1 in the journal Nature, Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt and Claire Brindis argue that it’s a misnomer to consider sugar just “empty calories.” They write: “There is nothing empty about these calories. A growing body of scientific evidence is showing that fructose can trigger processes that lead to liver toxicity and a host of other chronic diseases.
