“It Felt Good but Weird at the Same Time”

"It felt good but weird at the same time": Emerging adults' first experiences of six different sexual behaviors.

Although sexual behavior is multidimensional, little research has focused on the experience of non-intercourse behaviors for adolescents and emerging adults. This paper uses open-ended coded data from a longitudinal study of college students (N = 346; Mean age = 18.5, 52% female, 27% Hispanic/Latino [HL], 25% non-HL European American, 23% non-HL Asian American, 16% non-HL African American, 9% n...

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

We often learn of successful pedagogical experiments, but we seldom hear of the the ones that failed. For this special session we solicited submissions from the SIGCSE membership, and selected the best for presentation in the session. Our contributors describe pedagogical approaches that initially seemed like good ideas, but provided inconclusive or even harmful end results. In the session, pre...

Synchronization is Coming Back, But is it the Same?

The same, but different

The Dutch healthcare sector has seen many major changes lately: the introduction of a new health insurance scheme, a shift from supply-based healthcare to a demand-based system and a trend towards increasingly assertive patients. This requires a new approach to the education and training of future doctors. How is this approach implemented in practice and how do the changes affect medical studen...

Nothing either good or bad but action makes it so.

Federico and Perez, in a recent issue of The Journal of Physiology, provide new insight into the impact of incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) on corticospinal preparation for movement (Federico & Perez, 2017). In people with chronic incomplete cervical SCI and age-matched control subjects, they measured motor evoked potentials evoked by cortical (MEPs) or subcortical (CMEPs) stimulation and sh...