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Video game companies are increasingly turning to psychologists for help analyzing data and making sure their products are as effective as they can be.

CAREER CENTER

Keeping your professional contacts organized and accessible can be done by using online tools like Facebook and creating contact lists on cell phones or paper.

A successful presentation can be achieved by writing your speech first, leading with an outline, using sentence fragments and smart fonts, using graphs and summarizing.

CLASS ACT

Uneducated Egyptian parents often don't know about the importance of iron for growing brains and how it can produce lifelong problems with cognitive development, as well as lead to problems with motor skills, attention and behavior.

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Research shows that workplace friendships can increase job satisfaction, productivity and job commitment while decreasing stress and turnover; however, some workplace friendships can cause problems.

Only 65 percent of psychology doctoral candidates finish their degrees due to student-program mismatch, program difficulty and a lack of financial and community support.

Advice on how to persevere the publication process from some of psychology's most productive researchers includes laying the groundwork, writing and submitting papers, working with reviewers.

An APA survey found that psychology graduate students reported experiencing anxiety, symptoms of depression, and even suicidal thoughts.