Music, dance and your brain. Focused on shopping. Cabinet Shuffle. Radicalization. Optimism about stress. Mental health claims.

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• Psychology PhD student Chiara Giacosa appeared on CJAD's Barry Morgan Show yesterday afternoon (no link available) to talk about her research on the different effects that music and dance training have on the brain. Giacosa led the research with Virginia Penhune, chair of and professor in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
• Domain-b picks up new research led by Onur Bodur, associate professor of marketing in the John Molson School of Business, and A. Selin Atalay of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. They examined how consumers' ability to accomplish their shopping plans can be impaired by multitasking, such as engaging in a mobile phone conversation while in a store.
• David Waddington, associate professor of education in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and William Robinson, humanities PhD candidate, appear in a VICE video report about the educational card game Cabinet Shuffle. The two created the game to encourage discussion about identity and politics by letting players create and shuffle their own federal cabinets. 
• Quartier Libre, reporting that an international chair on the prevention of radicalization will be created at Université de Sherbrooke, describes a project to develop a web portal dedicated to fighting online hate speech. It mentions the involvement of Concordia researchers in the initiative. While he is not named, one of the researchers is Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor of education in the Faculty of Arts and Science, whose SOMEONE (SOcial Media EducatiON Every day) project aims to sensitize the public and to problems associated with online hostility.
• Today reports on the results of a 2013 Concordia study, led by psychology professor Carsten Wrosch and psychology PhD candidate Joelle Jobin, of the relationship between optimism and lower stress levels. Jobin is quoted.
• The Edmonton Journal publishes a news release about an insurance industry study of mental health in the workplace, led by researchers at the Université de Montréal with the participation of unnamed Concordia researchers. 

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