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Meeting Unveils NIH Neurological, Behavioral Toolbox for Clinical Research
Registration is now open for “Unveiling the NIH Toolbox,” a free scientific conference September 10 – 11 presenting the NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function — a set of brief but comprehensive
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Expectations influences outcomes
United Press International: Suggestion — a rabbit’s foot or a lucky coin — can influence how people perform on learning and memory tasks, New Zealand and U.S researchers said. Maryanne Garry and Robert Michael of
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The Power of Suggestion: What We Expect Influences Our Behavior, for Better or Worse
A lucky rabbit foot. A glass of wine. A pill. What do these things all have in common? Their effects – whether we do well on a test, whether we mingle at the cocktail party
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SBE Advisory Committee Holds Meeting
COSSA Washington Update: Mumpower New SES Division Director Myron Gutmann, the current AD for SBE, updated the Committee on the directorate’s activities. He announced the appointment of Jeryl Mumpower, currently at the Bush School of
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Understand Uncertainty in Program Effects
Education Week: In education research, there’s a drive to cut to the chase: What’s the effect on the classroom? How much better will students perform on the state math test using this curriculum? How many
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Behavior Through Mathematical Modeling
Understanding behavior through Mathematical Modeling has been used to simulate everything from climate patterns to population growth, but Dirk Helbing uses them to examine something even more complex, namely human behavior. Drawing on his background
