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College tattoos: more than skin deep.

Nontattooed (n = 423, 81%) and tattooed (n = 97, 19%) college students report their cues, purpose, reason, risks, barriers, and customer criteria for tattooing; some psychosocial risks were documented. Challenges are posed and suggestions made for ...
Myrna L Armstrong, Donna C Owen, Alden E Roberts, Jerome R Koch (Dermatol Nurs, 200210)
college-tattoos-more-skin-deep.asp

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Jewish-Arab violence: perspectives of a dominant majority and a subordinate minority.

In 2 studies, the authors investigated intergroup violence as perceived by Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs. University and junior high school students judged Jewish-Arab clashes, which ended in shots fired at a crowd of either Jewish or Arab ...
Yohanan Eshel, Michal Moran (J Soc Psychol, 200210)
jewish-arab-violence-perspectives-dominant-majority-subordinate.asp

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Conflict resolution and peer mediation in middle schools: extending the process and outcome knowledge base.

Many professional educators are implementing school-based prevention focused on conflict resolution (CR) and peer mediation (PM). The authors conducted research on CR-PM in 3 middle schools. Specifically, they surveyed teachers and students, tracked ...
Stephen W Smith, Ann P Daunic, M David Miller, T Rowand Robinson (J Soc Psychol, 200210)
conflict-resolution-peer-mediation-middle-schools-extending-process.asp

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Predictors of intention to promote family planning: a survey of Protestant seminarians in the United States.

The purpose of this study was to examine Protestant seminary students intention to promote family planning. Intention to promote family planning and its predictors were examined by testing a conceptual model based on the theory of planned behavior and ...
Patricia Goodson (Health Educ Behav, 200210)
predictors-intention-promote-family-planning-survey-protestant.asp

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Brains rule! fun = learning = neuroscience literacy.

Brains Rule! Neuroscience Expositions is a project designed to improve neuroscience literacy among children and the general public by applying a model where neuroscience professionals transfer knowledge and enthusiasm about neuroscience through fun, ...
Andrea M Zardetto-Smith, Keli Mu, Cynthia L Phelps, Lynne E Houtz, Charlotte B Royeen (Neuroscientist, 200210)
brains-rule-fun-learning-neuroscience-literacy.asp

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Achievement motives, cognitive and social competence, and achievement goals in the classroom.

This study investigated the interrelations of approach and avoidance achievement motives (Motive to Achieve Success and Motive to Avoid Failure), two types of competence (Cognitive and Social competence), achievement goals (Mastery, Performance-approach, ...
Ayumi Tanaka, Takuhiro Okuno, Hirotsugu Yamauchi (Percept Mot Skills, 200210)
achievement-motives-cognitive-social-competence-achievement-goals.asp

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The cost of understanding other people: social cognition predicts young childrens sensitivity to criticism.

BACKGROUND: Individual differences in sensitivity to teacher criticism, and their links with individual differences in social cognition, were examined in 141 young children from diverse family backgrounds. METHODS: Childrens sensitivity to teacher ...
Alexandra L Cutting, Judy Dunn (J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 200210)
cost-understanding-other-people-social-cognition-predicts-young.asp

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Prediction of school performance using the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP): a validity study.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the ability of the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP) to predict academic performance of Israeli preschoolers after a period of 5 to 7 years. METHOD: Thirty children who were classified according ...
Shula Parush, Monica Winokur, Sarina Goldstand, Lucy Jane Miller (Am J Occup Ther, 200209-10)
prediction-school-performance-miller-assessment-preschoolers-map-.asp

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Bacterial water quality in the personal water bottles of elementary students.

BACKGROUND: Samples of drinking water were collected directly from the personal water bottles of students at an elementary school in Calgary, Alberta. METHODS: Total and fecal coliforms and heterotrophic bacteria were enumerated using membrane filtration ...
J A Oliphant, M C Ryan, A Chu (Can J Public Health, 200209-10)
bacterial-water-quality-personal-water-bottles-elementary-students.asp

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Smoking among female college students: a time for change.

The transition from high school to college begins a time of personal growth accompanied by normal developmental stressors. Some young women use smoking as a coping mechanism. The immediate danger for these students is nicotine dependence, with subsequent ...
Kathleen F Gaffney, Orn-Anong Wichaikhum, Ellen M Dawson (J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs, 200209-10)
smoking-female-college-students-time-change.asp