Healing ceilings: A collaborative exploration of pediatric preferences in ceiling tile artwork.

Aim: While incorporating artwork within healthcare settings can improve health outcomes, limited research exists to guide art selection for pediatric patients. This study aimed to improve an ongoing collaboration between a healthcare system and local art museum through which community members painted 100 custom ceiling tiles for display in pediatric clinical areas. The researchers sought to determine if artwork content and/or color tone impacted patient experience and/or preference of artwork.

Does Physiological Arousal Increase Social Transmission of Information? Two Replications of Berger (2011).

People share information for many reasons. For example, Berger (2011, = 40) found that undergraduate participants manipulated to have higher physiological arousal were more likely to share a news article with others via email than people who had low arousal. Berger's research is widely cited as evidence of the causal role of arousal in sharing information and has been used to explain why information that induces high-arousal emotions is shared more than information that induces low-arousal emotions.

Coping in the Digital Age: Do Coping Strategies Mediate the Link Between Online and In-Person Victimization and Depressive Symptoms?

With increased use of social networking sites in recent years, there has also been an increased opportunity for users to fall prey to bullying victimization. However, little is known about the differences between online and in-person victimization in association with depression or how different coping strategies may mediate this relationship among college students. The goal of the current study was to examine whether there were similarities or differences in the extent to which self-reported online and in-person victimization were associated with depressive symptoms in a sample of 210 undergraduate students (72.