Kids, Expo, TV, Burn-out

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• Further coverage of research from a team including Patricia Brosseau-Liard, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology, that found children as of the age of five can evaluate the credibility of adults is carried in Le Devoir, the Vancouver Sun, Clinica Space and The Star Phoenix. The Star Phoenix article was reprised in The Gazette (no link available).
  
  
• La Presse + reports on CINEMAexpo67, a research project headed by Monika Kin Gagnon, professor in the Department of Communication Studies, in conjunction with York University. The project uncovered a copy of the film La vie polaire, shown during Expo 67 and produced a digital copy that is screening this month at the Cinémathèque québecoise.
  
  
• The Huffington Post UK refers to research by a team from five Canadian universities including Concordia that found sedentary time in front of television or computer screens produces worse health effects in children than other forms of sedentary activities such as reading a book. (The reference is found in slide 27 of the slideshow 30 Facts About Cancer That May Surprise You.  The slideshow is also featured in The Huffington Post).
  
  
• ICI Radio-Canada program Point du jour interviewed a researcher from Université de Montréal who collaborated with Steve Harvey, professor in the Department of Management and dean of the John Molson School of Business about their study that found that an individual’s personal life had an impact on the likelihood of them suffering a burn-out at work.

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