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Can Virtual Reality Improve How Teachers Are Trained?

(Teacher walks to the front of a classroom.) Teacher: Good morning everyone, let’s get started. Student: This sucks! Teacher: Excuse me? (grimacing, eyes narrowing) Student: You heard me (student glares). This class sucks!        Teacher: Take your stuff and go to the office (pointing to the door). Student: See, I knew you didn’t care about me! […]

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Explain it like I’m Five: Community Psychology

PubTrawlr is sponsoring SCRA Conference 2021! Only one week until the biennial Society for Community Research and Action Conference starting on June 22. SCRA is Division 27 of the American Psychological Association, focusing on Community Psychology. If you’re anything like my sons or my wife, you likely have no idea what community psychology is.

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Catching up with…Racism and Health

Recently, we wrote about recent trends in health equity research. Health equity is growing in prominence among researchers and community practitioners because, well, health outcomes are different for different populations. At PubTrawlr, we find this unacceptable and immoral.

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Catching up with…Suicide Research

There’s an urgent need for mental health researchers and practitioners to stay up to date with research on suicidology. Practitioners, though, often struggle to find time to really dig into recent findings. Inspired by some of our recent work tracking health equity, along with the welcome news that suicides seemingly declined during early days of […]

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May 2021 in Community Psychology

Before we close the book on May 2021 and get charged up for the upcoming SCRA conference, let’s take a last minute to look backward! It was kind of a thin month for community psychology publications: only 35 total. Still, we can extract some interesting insights from what people are publishing on.

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Stopping the Paper Mills: May’s Retraction Report

Here in the United States, Memorial Day weekend represents the official-unofficial start of summer. We Americans like to celebrate with parades, flag-waving, picnics, cook-outs, baseball; all the nice stereotypical things. With the corner turning on COVID and more activities coming back, we plan to enjoy this weekend. That said, let’s get the retraction report out […]

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Freeze-Change-(Re)freeze & Repeat

“If you want to truly understand something, try to change it,” said Kurt Lewin, one of the early pioneers of social psychology and action research. He spent years using scientific methods to understand human social behaviors. His work remains prescient today, especially for describing organizational change. Although the field of Implementation Science1 emerged long after […]

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Shedding Light on Endometriosis

Endometriosis is a disease where tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus, causing pain and/or infertility. It is one of the most prevalent diseases in gynecologic practice. It affects an estimated one in 10, or 176-200 million people, worldwide. Presently there is no known cause and no way to test for […]

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5 Things That Should Be in Every Scientific Abstract

In scientific literature, the word abstract is an oxymoron. Allow me to explain. When I think of the word “abstract,” I think of words like: implicit, subtextual, emotional. But a scientific abstract should actually be the opposite of all those things: explicit, precise, and detached. An abstract is the beginning and end of every scientific […]

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