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Kashdan on Boredom

In an article entitled Boredom Begins at School, the Montreal Gazette includes comments from Mason professor Todd Kashdan's online response to a study on boredom in Psychology Today.

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Accolades

Parasuraman, Thompson, and Shaw receive Nickerson Award

Dr. Raja Parasuraman received the Inaugural Raymond S. Nickerson Award for Best Paper in the 2009 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied with coauthors James Thompson and Tyler Shaw, as well as graduate students Ewart de Visser, Ellen Clarke, Ryan McGarry, and Liz Hussey.

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Publications

Kashdan Publishes Second Book

Oxford University Press publishes Todd Kashdan's second book, Designing the Future of Positive Psychology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward. The first, from William Morrow, was Curious? Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life.

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Psychology Faculty Funded

Christy Esposito-Smythers, Jerome Short, and Patrick McKnight have received funding from NIAAA in the amount of $344,613 for the first year of the project titled: Alcohol, Suicide & HIV Prevention of Teens in Mental Health Treatment. The period of performance is 09/30/2008 through 08/31/2012.

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