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• Risk | Psychology Today
  Risk taking probably bestowed a crucial evolutionary advantage, inciting the fighting and foraging of the hunter-gatherer.


• Outdoor education theories: A review and synthesis (Neill, 2010)
  This 45-minute keynote summarises and reviews outdoor education theory to date and then proposes a dynamic model to synthesise the main theoretical elements.


• Your Brain on Computers - Studying the Brain Off the Grid, Professors Find Clarity - NYTimes.com
  5 neuroscientists go on a rafting trip in order to study the brain.


• EEResearch
  Environmental education research summaries.


• Tweeting With The Birds: Pitch Tent, Switch To Wi-Fi : NPR
  More American campgrounds are connecting to wireless.


• Nature deficit disorder - Life Matters - 14 June 2010
  Children used to spend a lot of time outdoors riding a bike, building a cubby house or throwing stones in the creek. It's fondly referred to as a free-range childhood.
  
  Contemporary children spend a lot more time inside and this has produced an epidemic of nature deficit disorder.


• Heavy, rough and hard ? how the things we touch affect our judgments and decisions | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
  What we touch affects how we feel and perceive e.g., "when sitting on a hard chair, negotiators take tougher stances...".


• The pretest-posttest design and measurement of outward-bound-type program effects on personal development
  This study tests the effects of a 3-day Outward-Bound-type program on the personal development of college students (N = 134). Uses a pre-post design with the Life Effectiveness Questionnaire (H). Factor analysis finds 7 factors and that participants experienced significant change effects on all life effectiveness factors.


• The Effect of Outdoor Education on Students? Social Emotional Competencies Development and Engagement in Classroom
  This research-based conference presentation reports on an 8-week x 90 min lesson Singaporean outdoor education program impacts on 40 students' social and emotional competence.


• What does the research say about Outdoor Learning
  A summary of key findings from reviews of research and major studies in outdoor learning.

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