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October ’25 Bookmark of the Month: The Nightmare Before Midterms
Get PDFThis limited-edition bookmark debuted for the Emerson community in early October 2025. In efforts to raise awareness on voter registration, this design was voted on and chosen out of three other options. In our Library newsletter we asked folks to choose between a theme of: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jellycats, The Summer I Turned Pretty, and The Life of a Showgirl, and The Nightmare Before Christmas won! The front features a classic scene from the movie and the back includes characters from the film with Jack Skellington singing, What\u27s this? What\u27s this? There\u27s RESOURCES everywhere! The back also has a QR code for readers to explore a full list of Iwasaki Library resources.https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/bookmarks/1009/thumbnail.jp
Library Newsletter: Early November ‘25
No full textThis Library Newsletter reached faculty, staff, and students of Emerson College on November 7th, 2025. This is the first published issue of the two total issues that were published within the month of November. This is the fifth issue of the 3rd volume. It includes top stories such as NYTimes Cooking Thanksgiving Recipes, Interlibrary loan, A.I. tools that are better for Emersonians, Teach-In on Sustainability, Southwick Recital, becoming a volunteer for Relaxapalooza, and following the library on social media.https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/librarynews/1028/thumbnail.jp
Library Newsletter Late February \u2725
No full textThis Library newsletter reached staff, students, and faculty of Emerson College on February 21st, 2025.https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/librarynews/1020/thumbnail.jp
Perceiving and responding to another’s interest in initiating friendship: The role of attachment insecurity
No full textThe present research examines two early steps in friendship initiation: (1) Perceiving potential friends’ interest, and (2) responding to that interest. We also consider how attachment insecurity might create challenges with these steps. In Study 1, two unacquainted participants briefly interacted, then reported their own interest in friendship and their perceptions of the other person’s interest in friendship. People generally underestimated others’ interest, yet they also projected their own interest onto others and reciprocated others’ interest. Avoidantly-attached individuals were especially likely to underestimate others’ interest. They were also less interested in others, regardless of others’ interest; this link was mediated by lower perceptions of others’ interest. Anxiously-attached individuals’ interest was not associated with others’ interest. In Study 2, participants interacted with a potential friend (a confederate) who expressed experimentally-manipulated interest or disinterest in friendship. Avoidantly-attached individuals felt more hostility in response to disinterest than did others; anxiously-attached individuals felt more fear in response to interest than did others. We discuss how attachment insecurity might impede friendship initiation at its earliest stages
Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers
No full textThis research paper explores the role of speaker, listener and real-time social attention for pronoun comprehension in autistic and nonautistic children in the northeast United States. We assessed the pronoun comprehension of 22 autistic children (average age of 62 months, range 46–80 months) and 22 nonautistic children (average age 44 months, range 30–57 months) matched on expressive vocabulary scores. We evaluated the first- and second-person possessive pronoun comprehension (“my” and “your”) using a game in which two experimenters hid stickers and provided clues to their location by providing a verbal clue (e.g. “It’s in your box”) with accompanying gaze to the addressee. We also coded each child’s gaze to the speaker during the pronoun comprehension task. Findings suggest that both autistic and nonautistic children comprehend first- and second-person pronouns at levels above chance. Nonautistic children performed better at comprehending second-person pronouns than autistic children. For both groups, children were more accurate in their comprehension of the second-person pronoun “your” when it referred to themselves versus when it referred to the experimenter; errors more commonly reflected “self-bias” rather than pronoun reversal errors. Children who gazed at the speaker performed better in comprehending second-person pronouns than children who did not. Our results reveal considerable overlap in the strengths and challenges of young language learners with and without autism. Our findings suggest that children may benefit from repeated experiences across varied conversational settings – including addressed and non-addressed speech – to practice the synchronization of semantics and pragmatics in their ongoing mastery of language
Library Newsletter: Early September ‘25
No full textThis Library Newsletter reached faculty, students, and staff of Emerson College on September 5th, 2025. This is the first published issue of the two total issues that were published within the month of September. This is the first issue of the 3rd volume. It includes top stories such as where is the Iwasaki Library located, finding textbooks at the library, American Comedy Archives, a curated Emerson mixtape, a plug about new monthly bookmarks for September in the library (this month they are Labubu themed), plus a poll about what ways people like to absorb new information. This newsletter also includes top links to bookmark: our website, our hours, and how to reserve study spaces. Included are links to a map of the library, study spaces on the entire campus, and searching for class readings. Students and Alumni connected to collaborate on capturing iconic comedy voices like Bill Burr, Mario Cantone, Steven Wright, Paula Poundstone, and Roy Wood Jr. Our mixtapes are available on Spotify and community members are encouraged to submit their music to be added to the playlists.https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/librarynews/1024/thumbnail.jp
April ’25 Bookmark of the Month: As a Child, I Yearned for the Library
No full textThis collectable bookmark was released to the Emerson community around early April. It is based on the popular Minecraft the Movie, which was also released in early April and very popular amongst students. It contains many references to the video game and movie, with tie-ins to the Iwasaki Library. The QR code on the back, takes readers to a full list of Iwasaki Library resources.https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/bookmarks/1007/thumbnail.jp
November ’25 Bookmark of the Month: Utilize the library\u27s Jellycat-alog
No full textThis limited-edition bookmark debuted for the Emerson community in early November 2025. Inspired by the wildly popular stuffed animal collectibles known as jellycats. On the front of the bookmark, some of the more well known jellycats are busy studying. Flip it over and enjoy fall-themed jellycats with some food and Thanksgiving related jellycats. Scan the QR code on the back to explore a full list of Iwasaki Library resources.https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/bookmarks/1010/thumbnail.jp
Library Newsletter: Late November ‘25
No full textThis Library Newsletter reached faculty, staff, and students of Emerson College on November 21st, 2025. This is the second published issue of the two total issues that were published within the month of November. This is the sixth issue of the 3rd volume. It includes top stories such as a reminder about Relaxapalooza, a plug for Wicked (2024), WARC tablings, a Liberal Arts survey, a reminder about SpaceBridge, and a push to get a Boston ArtsCard.https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/librarynews/1029/thumbnail.jp
IDEAS for Learning Newsletter: Late September ‘25
No full textThis IDEAS for Learning newsletter reached faculty of Emerson College on September 19th, 2025. This is the second published issue of the two total issues that were published within the month of September. This is the fourth issue of the 3rd volume. It includes top stories such as securing your school librarians, a welcome to Dr. Tuesda Evans, signing up for an OAA and ITG rubric workshop, Student Learning Outcomes (SLO), and the Career Champions launch!https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/ideasnews/1026/thumbnail.jp