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11/21/2008
Happy People Get the Big Picture (MedicineNet.com)
Title: Happy People Get the Big Picture Category: Health News Created: 11/21/2008 Last Editorial Review: 11/21/2008
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11/22/2008
Two people arrested in connection with 20-month-old's burns, bites in North Middleton (The Sentinel)
Two people were arrested Wednesday in connection with a child abuse investigation spurred earlier this month by the discovery that a 20-month-old child had bite marks and second- and third-degree burns on his body.
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11/22/2008
In tough times, more people seeking aid (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
The Coalition for People in Need has been providing emergency assistance to area residents for about 14 years.
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11/22/2008
Hospital offers yoga program for overweight people (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
Northeast Baptist Hospital is hosting a new class called Yoga for Round Bodies. Just as the title suggests, it is a program to get overweight people onto the mat and into a different kind of physical fitness.
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11/22/2008
4 People Found Dead In Juarez (KFOX 14 El Paso)
Mexican authorities found four people shot dead in Juarez. Just before 6:00 a.m. Friday, two women and one man were shot while driving in a PT Cruiser.
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11/21/2008
Happier people watch less TV (Detroit Free Press)
A 30-year study of television habits suggests that unhappy people watch more TV, vote less, read fewer newspapers and are generally less socially active than happier people.
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11/21/2008
Stoned driver who killed 2 people gets 4-year sentence (CBC Edmonton)
An Edmonton man, found guilty of killing two people and injuring two others while he was driving high on marijuana, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison, reduced to 37 months after credit for time served.
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11/21/2008
Obese People Get Two Seats For Price of One on Flights (Fox News)
Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the country's Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
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11/22/2008
Strained charities could turn people away (KOB-TV Albuquerque)
New Mexico charities say donations this year are "drastically down" and so it will be harder than ever for them to help those in need. Donations are down about 25 percent. And at the same time, the amount of people looking for help is up.
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11/22/2008
Five people hurt in light rail/bus accident (ABC 13 Houston)
Five people ended up in the hospital when a light rail train crashed into a shuttle bus in Midtown Houston Friday
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  • Agnew, Christopher - Personal relationships, health behavior (Purdue U., USA)
  • Arkin, Robert - Attribution theory, self-presentation, self-handicapping, overachievement (Ohio State U., USA)
  • Arriaga, Ximena - Personal relationships, commitment, abusive relationships (Purdue U., USA)
  • Baldwin, Mark W. - Cognitive representation of interpersonal information (U. of Winnipeg, Canada)
  • Beyer, Sylvia - Gender, self-perception, causal attributions of performance (U. of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA)
  • Bizer, George Y. - Attitudes, attitude strength, persuasion, political psychology. (Union College, NY, USA)
  • Blascovich, James J. - Social psychophysiology, challenge and threat motivation, immersive virtual environments as a research tool (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Bodenhausen, Galen - Social attitudes, social cognition (Northwestern U., USA)
  • Brewer, Marilynn - Social cognition, intergroup relations, social identities and the self concept (Ohio State U., USA)
  • Carlston, Donal - Social cognition, mental representation, person perception, and impression formation (Purdue U., USA)
  • Collins, Nancy L. - Close relationships, interpersonal perception, social support, health psychology (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Dunning, David - Accuracy and illusion in human judgment, social perception, accuracy and error in eyewitness testimony (Cornell U., USA)
  • Eagly, Alice - Attitudes, gender, meta-analysis (Northwestern U., USA)
  • Edwards, John - Social cognition and individual differences: motivational and personality factors influencing social judgment (Oregon State U., USA)
  • Feldman Barrett, Lisa - Research related to emotional experience, the structure of affect, experience-sampling procedures, adult attachment, and personality.
  • Gardner, Wendi L. - Physiological and social psychological investigation of evaluative and emotional processes (Northwestern U., USA)
  • Glaser, Jack - Prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination; intergroup conflict and hate crime; unconscious affect and cognition; political decision making and behavior; political ideology (U. of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • Gonzalez, Richard - Judgement and decision making, mathematical modeling of group processes (U. of Michigan, USA)
  • Greenwald, Anthony G. - Implicit social cognition, unconscious cognition, the self, research methodology attitudes and social cognition (U. of Washington, USA)
  • Hamilton, David - Social cognition, stereotypes, person perception, attribution processes (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Higgins, N. C. - Optimism, coping, attribution theory, risk perception, aggression, helping behaviour (St. Thomas U., Canada)
  • Kelly, Janice - Group interaction process analysis, social psychology of time, and the effects of mood and social factors on group interaction (Purdue U., USA)
  • Kirby, Leslie D. - Task engagement, psychophysiology of emotions, motivation and emotion, appraisal theories of emotion (Vanderbilt U., USA)
  • Klauer, Karl Christoph - Social cognition, cognitive psychology, research methods (Bonn U., Germany)
  • Klein, Stanley B. - Social cognition, mental representation of self, person memory (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Krauss, Robert - Conversational hand gestures, communication and cognition, language and emotions, social representations in language and cognition (Columbia U., USA)
  • Krosnick, Jon - Formation and change of political attitudes, social and cognitive processes involved in responding to survey questionnaires (Stanford U., USA)
  • Lips, Hilary M. - Gender and women's issues. (Radford U., USA)
  • Mackie, Diane M. - Persuasion, social influence, affect, intergroup processes, social perception (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Major, Brenda N. - Prejudice and self-esteem, coping with stress, legitimacy (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Malle, Bertram F. - Social and personality psychology, judgment and decision making (U. of Oregon, USA)
  • Markman, Keith D. - Motivated social cognition, social judgment and decision-making, counterfactual thinking (Ohio U., USA)
  • McAndrew, Frank - social psychology, evolutionary psychology, and environmental psychology (Knox College, USA)
  • McConnell, Allen R. - Forming impressions of social entities, self-concept representation, counterfactual thinking (Miami U., Ohio, USA)
  • Milgram, Stanley - Biography, key references, and quotations from Milgram's biographer, Thomas Blass.
  • Nelson, Todd D. - Stereotyping and prejudice, counterfactual thinking, attitudes, prosocial behavior, and self-regulation (California State U., USA)
  • Olson, Michael A - Social cognition, attitudes, racial prejudice, and evolutionary psychology (U. of Tennessee, USA)
  • Petty, Richard - Situational and individual difference factors responsible for changes in beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors (Ohio State U., USA)
  • Plous, Scott - Prejudice and discrimination, decision making, the human use of animals and the environment (Wesleyan U., USA)
  • Read, Stephen - Neural network models of reasoning and behavior, use of interactive media for studying and changing risky social behavior (U. of Southern California, USA)
  • Reber, Rolf - Cognitive psychology, with special interests phenomenal experience and judgments, rule learning, and e-learning (U. of Bergen, Norway)
  • Reeder, Glen - Social cognition, impression formation and attribution process, prejudice toward people with AIDS/HIV (Illinois State U., USA)
  • Roese, Neal - Causal judgment, social comparison, emotion (U. of Illinois, USA)
  • Ruscher, Janet - Stereotyping and prejudice in communication (Tulane U., USA)
  • Sackett, Aaron M. - Social judgment and decision making, judgments of self, self-identity, personal predictions, unrealistic optimism (Chicago Graduate School of Business, USA)
  • Sanna, Lawrence J. - Social cognition and mental simulation, cognitive and affective influences on performance (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
  • Shaw, Jerry I. - Information search and impression formation, psychology and law, jury training, attribution of causality, homophobia, centrality preferences in choice behavior (California State U., USA)
  • Sherman, Jeff - Social cognition, impression formation, self perception, stereotyping (U. of California Davis, USA)
  • Sherman, Richard C. - social cognition, processes underlying online self-presentation (Miami U., Ohio, USA)
  • Shoda, Yuichi - Social psychology and personality, coherence and perception of personality, social cognition, computational modeling of personality processes, health and coping behavior (U. of Washington, USA)
  • Smith, Eliot R. - Social cognition, past experiences and social judgments, role of emotions in prejudice and intergroup relations, connectionist models in social psychology (Indiana U., USA)
  • Sokolowska, Joanna - Psychological theory of decision making, risk perception and acceptance (Warsaw, Poland) [some Polish content]
  • Stapel, Diederik A. - Person perception, self perception, social comparison, psychophysics and comparative and social judgment, motivational processing, prejudice and stereotyping, political psychology, consumer psychology (U. of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  • Stewart, Tracie L. - Stereotypes and prejudice (Georgia State University, USA)
  • Tetlock, Philip - Accountability, evaluations of judgments, political psychology (U. of California, USA)
  • Uleman, Jim - The role of intentions and culture in cognitive processes (New York U., USA)
  • Weary, Gifford - Cognitive and motivational influences on social perception processes (Ohio State U., USA)
  • Wegener, Duane - Attitude change, social cognition (Purdue U., USA)
  • Williams, Lawrence E. (U. of Colorado) - Research interests include nonconscious goals in everyday life, emotion regulation, enjoyment of aversive forms of entertainment, automatic self-control (U. of Colorado).
  • Windschitl, Paul - Attribution theory and judgment, judgment of likelihood (U. of Iowa, USA)
  • Winkielman, Piotr - Affect and cognition, categorization and awareness in social judgment, conversational processes in social judgment (U. of California San Diego, USA)
  • Zarate, Michael A. - Cognitive processes underlying social categorization, prejudice, and stereotyping (U. of Texas at El Paso, USA)
  • Zimbardo, Philip - Prisons, time, shyness, madness, violence and evil, persuasion, dissonance, hypnosis, teaching (Stanford U., USA)
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