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Military TBIs Linked to Faster Aging in Post-9/11 Veterans

A new study from Professor Kyle Bourassa, published in The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, reveals that post-9/11 veterans who experienced deployment-related traumatic…

August 19, 2025

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Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual (Smith, P., Mann, J., & Marsh, A.)

Title Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual Abstract Because climate change and the biodiversity crisis are driven by human actions, determining psychological…

May 29, 2024

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Associations between daily food insecurity and parent and child well-being. (Hines et al.)

Title Associations between daily food insecurity and parent and child well-being. Abstract Food insecurity poses a serious threat to children’s development, but the mechanisms…

April 1, 2024

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Public Preschool Predicts Stronger Third-Grade Academic Skills (Johnson et al.)

Title Public Preschool Predicts Stronger Third-Grade Academic Skills Abstract Public preschool boosts academic skills in kindergarten, but little is known about whether that…

April 1, 2024

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Reexamining models of early learning in the digital age: Applications for learning in the wild (Barr & Kirkorian)

Title Reexamining models of early learning in the digital age: Application for learning in the wild. Abstract Young children are growing up in an increasingly complicated digital…

January 30, 2024

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Marginal structural models for estimating the longitudinal effects of community violence exposure on youths’ internalizing and externalizing symptoms (Kennedy et al.)

Title Marginal structural models for estimating the longitudinal effects of community violence exposure on youths’ internalizing and externalizing symptoms Abstract Objective:…

January 2, 2024

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A deeper dive, a wider pool: Preschool benefits sustain to first grade on a broader set of outcomes (Johnson et al.)

Title A deeper dive, a wider pool: Preschool benefits sustain to first grade on a broader set of outcomes Abstract The current study provides new evidence on the sustained…

January 2, 2024

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Neural responses underlying extraordinary altruists’ generosity for socially distant others (Rhoads et al.)

Title Neural responses underlying extraordinary altruists’ generosity for socially distant others Abstract Most people are much less generous toward strangers than close, …

January 2, 2024

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Altered neural reward processing is associated with reward-related decision-making in adolescents with severe obesity (Rajan et al.)

Title Altered neural reward processing is associated with reward-related decision-making in adolescents with severe obesity Abstract Obesity is associated with altered food…

January 2, 2024

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Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy? (Kyle Fiore Law et al.)

Title Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy? Abstract Does empathy necessarily impede equity in altruism? Emerging findings from cognitive and affective…

January 2, 2024