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This study identified the existing ageism scales and reviewed the literature on ageism scales with an emphasis on the methodological issues. Most standardized ageism scales have focused on younger people’s attitudes and beliefs toward older adults. There are relatively few standardized scales that assess how older adults feel and think about their experiences being stereotyped. Although significant efforts have been made to outline ageism’s various dimensions and constructs, these efforts ha...

University of South Florida

Adaptation to climate change is inescapably influenced by processes of social identity - how people perceive themselves, others, and their place in the world around them. Yet there is sparse evidence into the specific ways in which identity processes shape adaptation planning and responses. This paper proposes three key ways to understand the relationship between identity formation and adaptation processes: (a) how social identities change in response to perceived climate change risks and threat...

A research team reports on its one-year project to improve the email habits of a large UK charity.

Illness- and death-related messages motivate people to exercise more efficiently. This helps designers of health apps to better understand the types of messages that individuals, regardless of gender, are likely to be motivated.

Abstract The current study sought to investigate the extent to which early childhood educators’ confidence in knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy for supporting early self-regulation predicted educator behavior and children’s self-regulation outcomes. Data from a diverse sample of 165 early childhood educators participating in a cluster Randomized Control Trial evaluation of a self-regulation intervention were utilized to evaluate the construct validity, reliability and predictive proper...

The Atlantic Voluntarily sacrificing pleasurable things resets your senses and makes you master of yourself. ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. We have just entered the season of Lent, a time to pray and fast to commemorate Jesus’s 40-day sojourn into the desert at the beginning of his public ministry. About a quarter of Americans—including 61 percent of Catholics—typically observe Lent through voluntary sacrifice, fasting, almsgiving, an...

Abstract The rapid growth of technologies in modern society has brought significant changes to teaching and learning. In higher education, there is an expectation that university teachers will integrate technologies into their teaching to enhance student learning and study. Technologies in higher education have provided teachers with many choices in how to design and implement their teaching practice. Whilst university teachers can use technologies in varying ways in online and face-to-face env...

Down to see both x. can only work if patients believe there is even a pain medicine that only then will they have any chance at all of experiencing self efficacy or the placebo effect as we call it in to the notes. but in every day medicine this wisdom is often not applied. medicines or. right without comment pills are simply handed out in the hospital and before an operation risks and side effects a move frequently emphasized that their desired outcome it all boils down to positive expectation....

today when he speaks in the white house rose garden. hes going to be calling for an extension of tax cuts only for people earning $250,000 a year or less. >> so the president is totally committed to getting rid of the tax cut for those making $250,000 or above. >> lets make progress on our spending by doing away with tax cuts for people that quite frankly dont need them and that havent worked and have them pay their fair share? >> that a yes or no. the president is completed committed ...