Jumpstarting Team Cohesion with Team Activity Debriefings.

Although peer evaluations are essential to team-based learning, they can be problematic. Team activity debriefings (TAD) are advantageous because they focus on the team's problem-solving strategies and teamwork skills. Students ( = 100) who used both tools reported that TADs were more helpful in developing team cohesion, helping students understand the characteristics of well-functioning teams, and helping students work better as a team.

Effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction in a community sample over 2 years.

Background: Although numerous studies have demonstrated that mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) improves clinical and nonclinical outcomes, few studies have followed MBSR participants for >12 months, and few have analyzed post-intervention home practice.

Methods: We followed a community sample of 247 self-referred adults for 2 years after completion of an 8-week MBSR program. Dependent variables, including self-reported anxiety, depression, perceived wellness, mindfulness, and duration and frequency of continued home practice, were measured before and after the program and every 6 months after.

Future health-related behavioral intention formation: the role of affect and cognition.

This study investigated the differential contribution of affect and cognition to behavioral intention formation during pursuit of future health-related goals. Cognitive evaluations, affective evaluations and behavioral intentions were measured for each of 32 health-related behaviors. The timeframes of the cognitive/affective measures and the behavioral intention measure were varied between current and future timeframes creating four different conditions.

A test of whether attributions provide for self-enhancement or self-defense.

It is well known that people often make attributions in a way that is favorable to their self-concepts (see R. L. Collins, 1996, for a review).