Monetary costs of dementia in the United States
2013 study in the New England Journal of Medicine calculating that the total cost of dementia for America was as high as $215 billion in 2010.
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Cultural cognition of scientific consensus
2010 study by the Yale, George Washington Law School, and the University of Oklahoma on how values shape perceptions of expert agreement and truth.
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Outcomes of game-based learning: Research roundup
2013 collection of academic scholarship on the popularity and effectiveness of game-based learning.
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Suicide among adults aged 35-64 years: United States, 1999-2010
2013 report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noting that the suicide rate for middle-aged Americans has been increasing.
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Major memory for microblogs
2013 study from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Scranton and the University of Warwick (UK) published in Memory and Cognition on how microblog content is read and remembered.
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Counterframing effects: Political messages, competition and uncertainty
2013 study in The Journal of Politics on the idea that there is a universally successful strategy for political messages that attempt to rebut contrary claims.
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Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology
2013 metastudy in Psychological Science in the Public Interest on an assessment of ten top learning and study strategies.
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Misinformation and its correction: Continued influence and successful debiasing
2012 metastudy in Psychological Science in the Public Interest on how misinformation originates and spreads and why it is difficult to correct.
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Improving risk assessment of violence among military veterans
2010 overview of studies in Clinical Psychology Review on risk factors for domestic violence among military veterans.
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Returning soldiers’ intimate relationships: Emotions, PTSD and alcohol
2010 study by the University of Minnesota Medical School and Duke University Medical Center on relationship problems among returning Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers.
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