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| How distracted are people when they are walking and texting? | How do cellphones decrease personal safety? ²ÝÁñÉçÇø's Ira Hyman talk about "distracted walking" and Pokemon Go. |
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| How to enhance your self-confidence | Job interview? Sales pitch? Big date? How you see the situation can affect how it goes. Psychologists know that when you change how you perceive a challenging situation, how you present it to yourself, your performance can improve. |
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| Psychology Department recruiting for study on adolescent identity development | |||
| Western’s Jeff Carroll Awarded More than $1.2 Million in Pair of Grants to Research Huntington’s Disease | |||
| Should using your mobile phone while walking be outlawed? | As beneficial as they are to our lives, mobile phones also present a legitimate threat to public safety – and not because of on-road use or radiation. Many mobile phone users now text, or intently perform some other function on their phone, while walking. This is commonly seen in public… |
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| Swiping for BFFs: Dating-style apps are breaking into the friendship market | If you’re in your 20s or 30s, the idea of swiping right to find your next date sounds pretty unsurprising by now. But what about swiping to find your next best friend? Looking at a photo of another woman with some details about who she is and what she likes, and in an instant deciding… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Psychology Department Offering Free Counseling to Community Members | |||
| A new look at racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care | There hasn't been a comprehensive look at whether disparities in mental health services have improved since 2001, when a U.S. surgeon general's report warned that racial and ethnic minority populations were underserved. Now a 2015 APA book called "Foundations of Multicultural… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø offers free counseling services | Graduate students in Western Washington University’s psychology department are offering free individual counseling sessions starting Tuesday, Jan. 19. ²ÝÁñÉçÇø’s Counseling Training Clinic will offer appointments for adults and children, with openings from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. |
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| Research Confirms Racial Inequities in Mental Health Treatments | Millions of Americans suffer from mental illness. Many seek therapy, but racial background influences availability and quality of treatment. In 1999 and 2001, the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office issued reports highlighting racial inequities: Racial minorities have less access to mental health… |