Good News Notes: “If you’re traveling over the holidays, you know it’s a stressful experience. From crowds to screenings, traffic and worries about boarding on time, an airport in Reno, Nevada, is hoping to soothe passengers. A volunteer organization called Paws 4 Passengers brings certified therapy dogs into terminals to encourage smiles and change the…
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Petting therapy dogs enhances thinking skills of stressed college students
Good News Notes: “Programs exclusively focused on petting therapy dogs improved stressed-out students’ thinking and planning skills more effectively than programs that included traditional stress-management information, according to new Washington State University research. The study was published today in the journal AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. The paper demonstrated that…