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The Hard Work of Vigilance Can Improve on Cue

January 8, 2003

Vital vigilance tasks crucial to fighter pilots, air-traffic controllers, airport-security personnel and to varied industries is hard work for the human brain. But the brain drain can be reduced and performance enhanced by prompting attention, according to research by a team of University of Cincinnati and Catholic University of America psychologists.

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Geography Professor Plans Geoarchaeology Trip to Belize

January 9, 2003

Geography professor Nicholas Dunning and a select group of students will conduct an ongoing investigation of ancient Maya impacts on the natural environment in northwestern Belize as part of a physical geography field methods course April 28th through May 10.

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Emotions Drive Psych Researcher

January 20, 2003

You may have never thought of the science behind emotion.  After all, the two seem at odds.  Science seeks unclouded objectivity while emotion embraces the subjective.  If they were people, science and emotion would be as star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet.