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Psychology student spearheads coming-out project
While research shows that coming out can lower people’s anxiety and improve their self-esteem and relationships, 42 percent of people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender lied about their personal relationships in the past year, according to a poll by the Human Rights Campaign. Unfortunately, they often have good reason to — 39 percent of Americans still consider homosexuality “morally wrong,” according to a May Gallup poll. Meanwhile LGBT youth are still the target of hate crimes, as demonstrated by the rash of youth suicides that took place across the country last year following incidents of intense harassment and bullying. To help people come out of the closet, Hood College graduate and psychology major Charity Smith launched “Project: OUT,” which enables people to send anonymous coming-out letters via Facebook, email or regular mail, decorated as they choose and addressed to whomever they want. Smith, who drew inspiration from a similar community art project called PostSecret, has garnered 3,670 Facebook fans and some 200 submissions since launching the project last year. “I am so humbled by what people are willing to share with me,” says Smith. “In part, that is why the project remains anonymous, because people can be so much more honest.” In one letter, a politician’s daughter says she can’t come out as a lesbian because she doesn’t want to harm her father’s career. In another, a woman describes hiding behind a facade of makeup and nail polish, afraid to reveal her attraction to other women. Other submissions relay inspiring and sometimes funny messages from those who have
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APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
2010. 3-Volume Set. 2,700 pages. Hardcover. List: $695.00 • APA Member/Affiliate: $395.00 ISBN: 978-1-4338-0727-5 • Item #: 4311502
Editor-in-Chief: Sheldon Zedeck, PhD
Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis
Second Edition Edited by Steven Jay Lynn, Judith W. Rhue, and Irving Kirsch
2010. 792 pages. Hardcover. List: $129.95 • APA Member/Affiliate: $69.95 ISBN 978-1-4338-0568-4 • Item # 4317205
APA Handbook of Intercultural Communication
Edited by David Matsumoto Co-published with Walter de Gruyter
2010. 394 pages. Hardcover. List: $79.95 • APA Member/Affiliate: $59.95 ISBN 978-1-4338-0778-7 • Item # 4317223 Sales limited to North America.
APA Handbook of Interpersonal Communication
Edited by David Matsumoto Co-published with Walter de Gruyter
2010. 406 pages. Hardcover. List: $79.95 • APA Member/Affiliate: $59.95 ISBN 978-1-4338-0780-0 • Item # 4317224 Sales limited to North America.
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successfully come out. While she wants the project, which is not APA-sponsored, to reach anyone who might benefit from it, Smith particularly hopes it reaches older adults. “They’re from a generation where your entire life rested on the fact that you were straight,” she says. “I’ve met an unfortunate number of people who have had to lead this prescribed life of Ozzie and Harriet, when they really wanted to be Ozzie and Ozzie.” Given Project: OUT’s popularity, Smith would like to see it blossom into a book or a traveling presentation. But even if it never reaches a wider audience, Smith feels she’s made a difference. “Even if I get only one letter a month, I plan to keep the project going,” Smith says. “Everyone should be able to say at least once in their life, ‘This is who I am.’” —T. DeANGELIS Click here to see a slide show of postcards.
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Contents
Interns: Be sure to track your hours
Students often notice but only sometimes blow the whistle on peers’ ethical violations
Psychology student spearheads coming-out project
Internship application costs rise
Odd Jobs
Media Picks
Chair’s Corner
Research Roundup
Matters to a Degree
The new academic job market
Applier beware
Does TV accurately portray psychology?
Safer travels
How to handle a tough audience
Free Money for Education
Meet your new advocates
Bulletin Board
Jobs, internships, postdocs and other opportunities
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