I Care (Coordinate) About You

Do Your Students Care Whether You Care about Them?

205 Steven A. Meyers is a professor of psychology at Roosevelt University in Chicago. His research interests include parent-child relations, effective college instruction, and faculty development. [email protected] Copyright © 2009 Heldref Publications Abstract. The author integrates research and theory to suggest that caring is an important dimension of effective college teaching. Despite ...

What Do ‘‘You’’ and ‘‘I’’ Say About Marital Health?

Recent studies in social psychology have found that the frequency of certain words in people’s speech and writing is related to psychological aspects of their personal health. We investigated whether counts of ‘‘self’’ and ‘‘other’’ pronouns used by 59 couples engaged in a problem-solving discussion were related to indices of marital health. One spouse in each couple had a diagnosis of obsessiv...

Caring More About You

“I care for you” says the autistic moral brain

I see you? - Predicting who will require intensive care

Background Delayed transfer to the intensive care unit (ICU) is correlated with higher morbidity and mortality in emergency department (ED) patients. If it is possible to identify patients at risk of transfer to the ICU shortly after arrival to the ED, early goal-directed therapy could theoretically reduce the incidence of ICU transfer and improve outcome for the critically ill. No widely used ...