Here in California, we just finished another primary election, and I find it personally refreshing to get a short break from the phone calls and mailers, at least until November rolls around. As I watch little if any network television (with the notable exception of college football), I am at Read more…
We have been very fortunate in the past few years to have experienced few glitches in our technology at home. Yes, there was the occasional hard drive crash, but we have learned to back up everything with super redundancy. So the two-day Internet outage we just experienced was definitely out Read more…
It’s that time of year again–APS! We had a great time with our FaceBook study last year, although the LinkedIn “Connect with me” t-shirts we wore might have been a little bit over the top. This year, our research group had some fun with the California Q-sort (Block, 2008). We compared student Read more…
One of the main reasons I bought an iPad (okay, in addition to the coolness factor) was that I strongly believe this will be the textbook platform of the future. I am hopeful that we can move in the direction of providing easily updated, heavily linked content that will allow Read more…
As our adult children travel far and wide in pursuit of their own goals, it’s comforting to learn from a new research study that talking to them can reduce their stress (as measured by reductions in cortisol and increases in oxytocin). Girls between 7 and 12 years of age were Read more…