Donation of organs, tissues, etc.; Psychology, Applied; Health behavior
Ohio’s transition to a first person consent organ donor registry provides an opportunity to study attitude and behavior change in regard to organ donation. Ohio was an early adopter of first person consent registries for organ donation. The...
Social action; Personality; Social psychology; Collective behavior
In many ways, working alone and together, people often take action for the benefit of other people, their communities, and for society at large. For example, as individuals, they serve as volunteers and give to charities; and, as members of groups...
Bullying in schools;Harassment in schools; Ethnic diversity;Social anxiety; Social psychology
Bullying or peer harassment is recognized as a substantial public health and educational problem in American schools. In this talk, Dr. Juvonen presents findings of collaborative research on bullying conducted primarily in Los Angeles area public...
Attention; Consciousness; Mental representation; Recovered memory; Sexual abuse victims; Social Psychology
Dr. Jonathan Schooler discusses issues related to attention, internal and external trains of thoughts, stages of consciousness from non-conscious to experience to meta-awareness. He discusses questions such as: the causal relationship between...
Psychology, Applied; Interpersonal relations; Experiments and innovations in education; Teaching; Learning; Social psychology; Education; Universities and colleges; Classroom environment; Self-determination (Psychology)
Basing on the findings from experiments conducted in the laboratory, schools, home, and special settings such as fMRI brain scans, Dr. Reeve (University of Iowa) addresses the question, “From where does motivation come?” Reflections on these...
