| | | APSA_NY13-410 | | PPRS Research Forum: Effortful Control and Psychopathology Speakers: John F. Clarkin, Chiara De Panfilis, Nicole M. Cain, Kevin B. Meehan, John F. Clarkin This research session presents a body of research evaluating the relationship between psychopathology and effortful control (EC) in young adults. EC is the capacity to delay immediate impulses in favor of long-term goals. In children, poor EC has been associated with impaired social functioning and increased psychopathology, while the relationship of low EC to interpersonal and clinical functioning in early adulthood. Audio CDs: 1 | | Audio CD | | $15.00 | | $15.00 | |
| | | TBA08-234 | | New Media, New Motion: New Avenues for Activism Speakers: Adam Green, Robert Greenwald, Jane Hamsher, Michael Kieschnick Audio CDs: 1 | | Audio CD | | $12.00 | | $12.00 | |
| | | APSA_NY13-306 | | University Forum: Shakespeare’s “Othello” Speakers: Stanley J. Coen, Robert Brustein, Michael Wood, Paul Schwaber Robert Brustein, Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard; Founder of the Yale Repertory and American Repertory Theatres, playwright, author (“The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time”), and recipient of the National Medal of Arts, talks about: how easily the forces of good can be overwhelmed by the forces of evil, Iago as a new kind of image in literature, and the embodiment of a world without a vigilant God. Michael Wood, Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, at Princeton, author (“Shakespeare”), critic (New York and London Reviews of Books), will talk about how language works in “Othello” as a means of seduction and almost becomes a character in its own right. Audio CDs: 3 | | Audio CD | | $35.00 | | $35.00 | |