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                        <td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=189414&url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/athletics/track/international-olympic-committee-gender-testing-plans-female-athletes-9.7132090?cmp=rss" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">International Olympic Committee Urged to Drop Reported Gender Test Plans</a>
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                        <p><div><p>Source: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/" rel="tag" target="_blank">Canadian Broadcasting Company - World News</a></p>More than 80 human rights and sport advocacy groups released a joint statement Tuesday calling on the ‌International Olympic Committee to end reported plans to introduce genetic sex testing for female athletes and impose a ban on transgender and intersex competitors. "Gender policing and exclusion harms all women and girls and undermines the very dignity and fairness the IOC claims ‌to uphold," said the executive director of the Sport &...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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                        <td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=189413&url=https://www.npr.org/2026/03/17/nx-s1-5750489/cannabis-research-mental-health" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Evidence Weak That Cannabis Is an Effective Mental Health Treatment</a>
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                        <p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.npr.org" rel="tag" target="_blank">NPR  </a></p>Along with chronic pain, mental health conditions are some of the top reasons people use marijuana for medical purposes. But a sweeping review of cannabis studies over the past 45 years concludes there is little to no high-quality evidence showing this practice is effective. The findings, published in the medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry, underscore the extent to which the public's embrace of cannabis has outpaced the scientific research.</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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                        <td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=189418&url=https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMibkFVX3lxTE1HUmlpSjVyN0FDemY3a1JLWGxEdFBhc2NxVmJBS09ncWdnMnhZcENSVzlQV2JUc0taV2pSNzNSVk9hQjhTTGV5YktQS0xRYWgzMXlUa2hyVGRPY0J1cG85MTBNSVZEX2dIeXhtU1Bn?oc=5&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Closing Your Eyes Could Muffle Your Hearing in Noisy Settings</a>
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                        <p><div><p>Source: <a href="http://news.google.com/?ned=us&topic=m" rel="tag" target="_blank">Google News - Health</a></p>It's a common practice: to hear a faint sound better, we squeeze our eyes shut. Yet new research suggests this strategy actually backfires in noisy environments. By monitoring brain activity via EEG, researchers found that closing your eyes triggers a state of "neural criticality" that causes the brain to over-filter sound, silencing the very thing you are trying to hear. The study was published this week in the Journal of the Acoustical Society...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<p><strong>Forwarded by:<br />
Michael Reeder LCPC<br />
Baltimore, MD</strong></p>

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