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  • 26 Nov 2024
    Anna Brytek-Matera

    When the focus on health and eating becomes a preoccupation

    In one of my favourite books by Haruki Miyazaki, Killing Commendatore, the protagonist emphasises that "if you want something with all your heart, you can achieve it". I completely identify with this statement.

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  • 25 Nov 2024
    Yohtaro Takano

    Culture Is Destiny?

    “… I’m afraid there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that Africa will make it. I know because I served in Nigeria. It’s their culture, you know [emphasis added]. It will not allow them to create a modern society. Ever, EVER” (Rosling et al., 2018, p. 167). This comment was made by a European investor […]

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  • 14 Nov 2024
    Satheesh K. Gangadharan, David M. L. Branford, Mary Barrett, Regi T. Alexander

    To prescribe or not to prescribe – that is the question?

    It’s 4pm on a Friday. The phones are ringing. ‘Somebody must do something!’ ‘The situation is out of control’. ‘Someone will get hurt’! ‘If something doesn’t happen soon, we will have to admit her to hospital’! A familiar scenario for many clinicians working in the field of intellectual disabilities and where the outcome may well […]

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  • 6 Aug 2024
    Rebecca R. Garte

    Why I decided to challenge the entire basis of my field

    My favorite moments as a teacher were when I would pause and surveil my classroom, my eyes flitting from one child to the next, all equally engrossed in serious tasks, the quiet hum of experimentation, problem solving and collaboration filling the air above their small forms. These deeply satisfying observations showed a busy, engaged classroom […]

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  • 15 May 2024
    Alan E. Kazdin

    Research Design

    To the public at large, scientific “facts” constantly seem to change. Some of these changes are dramatic. When I was a child there were nine planets in our solar system. However, a child born today will learn there are eight, but maybe one more lurking very far away. Additionally, scientific research once suggested foods such […]

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  • 8 May 2024
    Emilie A. Caspar

    Just Following Orders: From Perpetrator Testimonies to Brain Research

    One night in 2013, I found myself watching a documentary on television about a criminal investigation. Watching such documentaries was not uncommon for me, as my studies in neuropsychology and criminology had fueled my desire to better understand human nature and its association with antisocial conduct. This particular documentary narrated the story of a kindergarten […]

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  • 30 Apr 2024
    Dini Metro-Roland, Jessica Heybach, Sheron Fraser-Burgess

    Question: Why did we include these particular passages in the dedication?

    To the memory of Walter Roberts III (1959–2021) τὸ γάρ τοι θάνατον δεδιέναι, ὦ ἄνδρες,                                             To fear death, gentlemen, οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἐστὶν ἢ δοκεῖν σοφὸν εἶναι μὴ ὄντα:                               is no other than to think oneself wise when one was not δοκεῖν γὰρ εἰδέναι ἐστὶν ἃ οὐκ οἶδεν.                                                It is to think one […]

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  • 29 Apr 2024
    Patrick J. Kenney, Kim L. Fridkin

    Choices in a Chaotic Campaign:  Looking Forward to the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

    We write this blog knowing the 2024 presidential election will be a rematch of the 2020 contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.  We are not fully aware, though, how changes in the political landscape from 2020 to 2024 will alter how citizens make decisions at the ballot box.  In our book, Choices in a […]

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