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The First Amendment and Provocative Teaching: Lessons from the Evidence
According to the “germaneness standard,” public university faculty have a First Amendment protection for course-related speech, even provocative statements, when their statements or activities connect to the subject matter or pedagogy. Private university faculty have no corresponding, generalized First Amendment protection, but do have course-related speech prerogatives grounded in the tradition of academic freedom, which can be established by contract law. Students at public universities have First Amendment protection for their courserelated statements similar to public university faculty. However, according to the Hazelwood standard, learning-related student speech can be restricted when it is considered substantially disruptive to learning or is in opposition to legitimate pedagogical objectives
Is Sexting Good for a Relationship? It Depends…
Young adults report more positive sexual and emotional consequences when sexting is with a committed partner, rather than with a non-committed partner (e.g., casual dating partner). Interventions with teens should highlight the potential negative emotional consequences of sexting in non-committed relationships
It’s True: No One Knows You’re a Dog on The Internet
Identity deception is common online; however, most people (both college students and MTurkers, N = 262) believed an online confederate posing as a 13-year-old in a chat room. A well-developed online persona that uses both content and stylistic cues to portray age and gender may be effective for category deception