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- Investors worried, tuned into news reports, UO psychologists tell Wall Street Journal writer
Since 2001, investors’ comfort zone with their stocks has nose-dived from little worry about negative returns to growing worry about their stocks going nowhere for maybe a decade, reports UO psychologist Paul Slovic in an interview with Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig about today’s economy. In same article, UO psychologist Ellen Peters notes that American investors are spending a lot of time following, especially on TV news, the economic turmoil. Zweig’s column, however, carries the message that those who have some cash and can conquer their stock-phobia may be a good position, likening their potential investments to a venture in emerging markets. (Read story – may require paid subscription)
- Deaths in Gaza: Despite media coverage, numbers are hard to relate to, says UO's Paul Slovic on the CBC
In a live radio interview Jan. 8, The Current featured UO psychologist Paul Slovic, who appeared via the UO's ISDN studio at Media Services -- at 4:30 a.m. Pacific Time -- but 7:30 Toronto/Eastern Time. Slovic discussed his research on genocide, in which people become numb to numbers of deaths, regardless of where such deaths occur. (Listen to the interview)
- Projected Rogue River Basin climate impacts described in six UO videos
Bob Doppelt and Roger Hamilton of the UO Climate Leadership Initiative went on video to talk about the recently released report featuring climate-change projections for Oregon's Rogue River Basin. Visit our VIDEO PAGE where -- in six videos -- Doppelt talks separately about planning and policy implications, and Hamilton speaks on overall impacts facing the basin, how agriculture, particularly pinot noir production, may be threatened, what may happen to the region's vegetation, and how salmon may be affected.
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- Media Relations Contact Info
Phone: (541) 346-3134
Email: uonews@uoregon.edu
Staff Members (Position Details)
Phil Weiler: 541-346-3873; pweiler@uoregon.edu
Julie Brown: 541-346-3185; julbrown@uoregon.edu
Heidi Hiaasen: 541-346-3606, heidih@uoregon.edu
Jim Barlow: 541-346-3481; jebarlow@uoregon.edu
Shannon Rose: 541-346-3314; roses@uoregon.edu