Schoology, Changing A Negative Thinking Pattern About Use of Social Media

Thinking about changing mobility practices: how a social practice approach can help.

Policy efforts directed at encouraging physical activity have had minimal success to date. Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of practice, we suggest that a social practice framing might provide useful ways of thinking about why and how some practices do and could change. This article takes three case studies of transformations in mobility practices to explore conditions of possibility for change, us...

Children's Use of Social Categories in Thinking About People and Social Relationships.

A series of studies investigated White U.S. three- and four-year-old children's use of gender and race information to reason about their own and others' relationships and attributes. Three-year-old children used gender- but not race-based similarity between themselves and others to decide with whom they wanted to be friends, as well as to determine which children shared their own preferences fo...

Application of media literacy education for changing attitudes about self-medication of slimming supplements

Background: Self-medication of slimming supplements has increased, and media advertising has a role in this. The present study aimed at determining the effect of media literacy educational intervention on attitudes about self-medication of slimming supplements among the female students at dormitories of Iran University of Medical Sciences.    Methods: In this quasi-experimental study...

Changing Ways of Thinking About Mathematics by Teaching Game Theory

Recognizing Counterfactual Thinking in Social Media Texts

Counterfactual statements, describing events that did not occur and their consequents, have been studied in areas including problem-solving, affect management, and behavior regulation. People with more counterfactual thinking tend to perceive life events as more personally meaningful. Nevertheless, counterfactuals have not been studied in computational linguistics. We create a counterfactual tw...