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Call for Abstracts: Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change 2020 Conference
The Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC) 2020 Conference is accepting abstracts for posters, individual presentations, and panels through April 1, 2020. BECC, to be held December 6-9 in Washington, DC, presents behavioral research on how to encourage behavior change for energy and carbon savings, how to evaluate these programs, how to understand why individuals and groups change, and how to make these transitions in fair and equitable ways. Student fellowships are available for the conference through the Stanford University. The conference is co-convened by Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
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NSF Grants to Study Ethical and Responsible Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds research looking at ethical and responsible approaches to conducting research. Topics to consider include professional ethics, codes of conduct, licensing requirements, membership in organizations, honor codes, and more.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on moral concerns and emotional responses, how children use probability to infer happiness, and implicit gender bias in descriptions of expected elections results.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on disgust theory in psychiatric medicine, affect during depression treatment, the role of perspective shifting in empathy toward others and the self, individual differences in personality disorders, and decision making processes in substance use disorders.
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UK Climate Resilience Program Research Grants
Funded projects will raise awareness of what it means to work with uncertainty to build climate resilience in the real world and deliver useful knowledge to further inform practices and behaviors that build confidence in living with uncertainty.
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3 Ways to Build Coaching Into Your Career and Why it Matters
Many people are aware of the benefits of coaching, having had the opportunity to be coached themselves, or have friends or colleagues who have. What’s discussed less is the benefits of coaching for the coach. Here, we have a look at why it’s worth building coaching others into your career—particularly if you lead others, or aspire to – and three practical ways to go about it. “Power stress” is a term that resonates with many of my clients.
