Green consumers. Global warming map. Memory exercise. Love or lust?

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• Le Devoir publishes a piece featuring the work of Onur Bodur, an associate professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business, on how consumers can be encouraged to make ecologically-friendly choices. Bodur, who is pictured, is quoted throughout.
• Canadian Geographic posts a news brief describing a widely-reported Concordia study of global warming measurement, led by Damon Matthews, an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment, and Martin Leduc, a post-doctoral researcher. Matthews and Leduc map local temperature changes caused by CO2 emissions and reveal that 2015 was the warmest year ever recorded. The research is published in Nature Climate Change.
• iAfrica joins the extensive media coverage of a study led by Caroline Fitzpatrick, a researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, and Linda Pagani of Université de Montréal, describing how putting toddlers through memory exercises can help them succeed later, in school.
• An article in Beritagar (in Indonesian) about differences between love and lust references a 2012 study, co-authored by psychology professor Jim Pfaus, describing how love and sexual desire activate different but related areas of the brain.

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