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Studies also show that males act very differently from females when it comes to suicide. Attempts are common among girls, but completion is quite rare. "Boys are five times as likely to commit suicide, and they're much less likely to talk about it," says psychiatrist David Schaffer, president of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. "If a boy talks about suicide, that statistically carries a far higher risk of some tragedy occurring than when a girl does...
...some men shave while others grow a beard? Why the sudden hush in an elevator? A new online periodical called the Journal of Mundane Behavior mundanebehavior.org analyzes these and other quotidian activities. Why bother to log on? Because the ordinary reveals more about ourselves, says managing editor Scott Schaffer, a sociologist at California State University at Fullerton: "Most of us don't lead Jerry Springer lives." True, but his show should still get the ratings...
...idea is simple," says Head Teaching Fellow Christopher B. Schaffer. "You talk to people around you, and chances are the people who got the question right the first time got it right for the right reason, and will be more confident in their reasoning. So, they'll be more likely to convince their peers...
...addition, he is able to personally respond to questions--according to head TF Schaffer, the night before yesterday's lecture, Mazur sent out over 100 e-mail messages answering concerns and problems some students were having...