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» Getting It Right About Self-Esteem

One of the most serious misconceptions about self-esteem is that you can never have too much of it.

Tags: character disturbance, parenting and children, self-esteem

» Longer High-Stakes Tests May Result In Mental Fatigue

Spending hours taking a high-pressure aptitude test may make people feel mentally fatigued, but that fatigue doesn't necessarily lead to lower test scores.

Spending hours taking a high-pressure aptitude test may make people feel mentally fatigued, but that fatigue doesn't necessarily lead to lower test scores, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. If anything, performance might actually improve on a longer test, the study found.

“The experience of fatigue during testing does not appear to be, in and of itself, detrimental to test performance,” said co-authors Phillip Ackerman, PhD, and Ruth Kanfer, PhD.

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American Psychological Association

» Pool Safety Tips For Summer And General

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Memorial Day weekend is traditionally when pools reopen in the United States. The beginning of pool season is a good time for families and parents to review pool safety and use some tips. Nearly 300,000 public pools will open across the United States this weekend.

Memorial Day weekend is traditionally when pools reopen in the United States. The beginning of pool season is a good time for families and parents to review pool safety and use some tips. Nearly 300,000 public pools will open across the United States this weekend.

While pools can be a great source of fun and exercise for kids and families, they are also the cause of nearly 300 deaths of young kids every year. Most of these involve children less than 2 years of age.

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Ramona Bates MD

» Cold Blooded Criminals Use Violence Indiscriminately, UK
Psychopaths are more likely to use violence in a cold blooded, calculated way than non-psychopathic violent offenders. This is the finding of a study being presented today, Thursday 25th June 2009, at the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston.