Coping with disability, digitally. Women's heart health. Video game gender-switch. Ring finger revelations.

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• Coverage continues of new Concordia research led by Ann-Louise Davidson, associate professor in the Department of Education, that shows how smartphones, tablets and other mobile technologies can help people with an intellectual disability (ID) face the daily challenges related to their condition. The study, published in Social Inclusion, involved the creation by people with ID of testimonial videos which were then posted to a YouTube channel: The Hans India, Vishwa Gujarat, Indians Planet, Eenadu India, Can India News, New York Indian, Legal Era, Nyooz, Cellular News, Gizbot, Technobahn.
• Doctors Lounge, MPR and Endocrinology Advisor join media coverage of a new study co-authored by Simon Bacon, a professor in the Department of Exercise Science, Nicola Paine, a  visiting postdoctoral scholar in the same department, and others, revealing how anxiety disorder may mask certain signs of heart disease in women.
• Times Free Press references a 2014 study co-authored by Mia Consalvo, professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Canada Research Chair In Game Studies & Design, and colleagues at four other universities of the behaviour of online gamers. Specifically, the study, published in Information, Communication and Society, looked at how male gamers gave clear signs of their true gender when playing as a female character in a role-playing video game.
• An article in BlogSocial.net references a study of how the ratio of a man's index finger to his ring finger correlates with certain personality profiles. The Concordia researcher is Gad Saad, professor in the Department of Marketing. The piece embeds a link to a November, 2010 article in The Telegraph (UK) describing the study.

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