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Psychological Insights for the Health Care Reform Debate
Marion Steininger Quite apart from our personal views about what health-care reform should look like, psychologists can help to educate legislators, people we know, and groups we address about several...
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PsySR Archives Established in Akron
Anne Anderson I am pleased to report that this past summer, I delivered the first set of archived materials for Psychologists for Social Responsibility to the Archives of the History of American...
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Spreading Hysteria about Swine Flu "Hysteria": Public Health Preparedness in...
Stephen Soldz Public health is bedeviled by the public’s lack of understanding of uncertainty. Public health policy deals with potential future events. Decisions about policy have to be made with...
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Global Security Issues in 2010
Marc Pilisuk Protest now seems to be divided among many issues and hampered by disillusionment with the insufficient capacity of the Obama presidency to produce change that limits the transnational...
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Major Global Crises Call for Psychologists to Take the Stage
Gloria Gordon For several years I have kept a folder on my computer desktop for items relating to my admittedly grandiose plan to deliver a jolt to human behavior experts in the U.S. that will focus...
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Nuclear Power: A Psychological Perspective
Marc Pilisuk and Gianina Pellegrini Note: A print version of this essay will be available in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of the Peace Psychology Newsletter of APA’s Division 48. With the danger of...
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A Prevention Model for Reducing the Federal Debt While Doing Social Good
Neil Wollman The growing federal debt has become such a looming problem that President Obama appointed a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to tackle it. So far, the public...
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Wake Up Call
Gloria Gordon Jon Stewart broke the news recently that the Daily Show will throw a “Rally to Restore Sanity” on Saturday, October 30th on the Washington Mall. He exhorted viewers to come and “Take It...
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12 Most Frustrating Moments of "Waiting for Superman"
Josh Eidelson - The way Davis Guggenheim used the kids’ stories. Each of the kids was sympathetic, and they dramatized the deep inequality of opportunity in America. But neither the kids nor their...
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Kids on Color: New Site Helps Parents and Kids Talk About Race
Kids On Color founder, Charlton McIlvaine Sometimes the conversations we shy away from having with our kids are exactly the ones we most need to have. Professor of media, culture, and communication,...
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