Tweeting Is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions
2012 paper from Microsoft Research on assessing the credibility of tweets.
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Psychological costs of war: Military combat and mental health
2011 study by the Georgia State and San Diego State on the psychological costs associated with PTSD in service members returning from the post-9/11 conflicts.
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What is the rate of mental illness in the United States?
2012 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report mental illness rates across the population.
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Children’s “theory of mind” and adolescent involvement with bullying
2011 study from Duke University and King’s College London in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry on the cognitive origins of bullying.
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Verbal and non-verbal intelligence changes in the teenage brain
2011 study in the journal of science Nature on whether structural changes in the brain and longitudinal changes in IQ are related.
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Racial disparities in health: How much does stress really matter?
2011 study from Harvard University published in the DuBois Review exploring the interaction between stress and public health outcomes, along racial lines.
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Decision-making capacities in older adults
2011 study from Texas A&M and U.T. Austin in Psychological Science on decision-making abilities in younger and older adults.
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Psychological balance in high-level athletes: Gender-based differences and sport-specific patterns
2011 study in PLoS ONE on rates of psychological problems among athletes by the sport practiced and gender.
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Adverse adolescent relationship histories and young adult health
2011 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health on negative experiences in adolescence and poor health later on for young adults.
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Perceptions of persons in the persistent vegetative state
2011 study in the journal Cognition measuring the public’s general perceptions of patients living in a persistent vegetative state.
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