s (in alphabetical order) Jeanie Bukowski, International Studies, Bradley University “A New Water Culture on the Iberian Peninsula? Evaluating Epistemic Community Impact on Policy Change” Water management on the Iberian Peninsula is challenging due to geographic and climatic factors as well as past policy choices. Spain and Portugal share five major river basins and both states are subject to t...

Emerging conceptualizations of coping as “regulation under stress” highlight the synergies between coping and regulatory processes. In this volume, experts on regulation and/or coping during childhood and adolescence explore how these theoretical and empirical efforts can inform the developmental study of coping. All authors emphasize the utility of integrative multi-level perspectives that inc...

Prior research has linked mindfulness to improvements in attention, and suggested that the effects of mindfulness are particularly pronounced when individuals are cognitively depleted or stressed. Yet, no studies have tested whether mindfulness improves declarative awareness of unexpected stimuli in goal-directed tasks. Participants (N=794) were either depleted (or not) and subsequently underwe...

This study compared Pairs of students with Single students in web search tasks. The underlying hypothesis was that peer-to-peer collaboration encourages students to articulate their thoughts, which in turn has a facilitative effect on the regulation of the search process as well as search outcomes. Both hypotheses were supported by the results. Pairs located the target information more often an...

This study examined the way successful college students with LD compensated for their deficits in phonological processing. Successful was defined as average or above-average grades in college coursework. The study compared the cognitive and metacognitive performance of students with and without LD (N=40). Although achievement levels for both groups were comparahle, students with LD scored signi...

Personalization and intelligent tutor are two key factors in the research on learning environment. Intelligent tutoring system (ITS), which can imitate the human teachers' actions to implement one-to-one personalized teaching to some extent, is an effective tool for training the ability of problem solving. This research firstly discusses the concepts and methods of designing problem solving ori...

Self-regulated learning is a relatively new construct in the domain of educational psychology but its theoretical relevance and important practical implications have already been well established. The study explored the extent to which the self-regulated learning strategies of metacognition, elaboration, critical thinking, organization, rehearsal, time and effort management, help seeking and pe...

Seven undergraduates at a selective Midwestern university participated in a semester-long pilot study regarding the impact of ADHD coaching services on their academic experiences. Coaches in the study had extensive qualifications, including specific training to address the needs of college students with ADHD. Three major themes emerged from qualitative interviews conducted with participants. Fi...

People often talk to themselves using the first-person pronoun (I), but they also talk to themselves as if they are speaking to someone else, using the second-person pronoun (You). Yet, the relative behavioral control achieved by I and You self-talk remains unknown. The current research was designed to examine the potential behavioral advantage of using You in self-talk and the role of attitude...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is reaching epidemic proportions in many populations despite significant efforts and awareness in both the medical and lay communities. This article explores the proposition that the current diabetes etiological model of genetic predisposition and poor lifestyle choices is incomplete. It is suggested that the model be expanded to include both the underlying reasons for ...