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Author(s): Keiko Ishii [sup.1] , Nicholas O. Rule [sup.2] , Rie Toriyama [sup.3] Author Affiliations: (1) Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, 0000 0001 1092 3077, grid.31432.37, , 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, [...], Previous studies showed that East Asians are more sensitive than North Americans to contextual information, and that the cultural differences in context sensitivity emerge in preschool children. Yet, little is known about whether this generalizes to children's emotional judgments. The present study tested Canadian and Japanese preschool children and examined cross-culturally the extent to which facial expressions of surrounding people influence judgments of a target person's emotion. Japanese children were more likely than Canadian children to judge an emotionally-neutral target as more negative (positive) when the background emotion was negative (positive), demonstrating an assimilation effect. Canadian children, however, showed a contrast effect: judging the target person's neutral emotion as more negative when the background emotion was positive. These data extend extant understanding of emotion recognition by illuminating nuances in perceptual processes across developmental and cultural lines.

Canada is currently in the midst of an unprecedented demographic shift in its aging population, with more Canadians than ever living longer, and with an aging average age that continues [...], In the next 15 years, Canada is predicted to face a doubling in its population affected by dementia. By 2038, an estimated 1.1 million Canadians will be experiencing dementia, with unprecedented impact on social, economic and health landscapes. In September 2015, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences convened a Forum, with the specific thematic goals of reviewing progress towards effective dementia treatment and prevention, improved systems of care, advanced living and built environments, and impactful technology developments. The orientation of the Forum was to focus on potential solutions and advances in these areas. These areas are integral to the goal of a national end-to-end program, where all affected Canadians can be optimally supported in their communities and receive quality of care--regardless of where they live or who they are. KEY WORDS: Dementia; prevention; national strategy; services D'ici 15 ans, la population du Canada atteinte de demence devrait doubler. D'ici 2038, environ 1,1 million de Canadiens seront atteints de demence, ce qui aura un impact sans precedent sur le paysage social, economique et sanitaire. En septembre 2015, l'Academie canadienne des sciences de la sante a convoque un forum dont les objectifs etaient d'examiner les progres realises en vue d'ameliorer l'efficacite du traitement et de la prevention de la demence, les systemes de soins, les milieux de vie et les cadres batis, ainsi que l'impact des developpements technologiques. Le forum a aborde les possibilites de prevenir la demence, d'offrir des systemes de soins ameliores, de refaconner nos milieux de vie et nos cadres batis, et de miser sur des solutions technologiques. Ces themes s'inscrivent dans l'objectif d'avoir un programme coordonne a l'echelle nationale capable de soutenir de facon optimale, dans leurs communautes, tous les Canadiens touches par la demence et de leur offrir des soins de qualite, peu importe oU ils vivent ou qui ils sont. MOTS CLES: demence; prevention; strategie nationale; services La traduction du resume se trouve a la fin de l'article.

INTRODUCTION Psychology is flourishing in Canada. It is the most popular discipline in universities, prominent in government and private-sector research settings, and well established among the health-care and helping professions. [...]

Canada has a high rate of suicide among adolescents and youth - higher than the rate in the United States. The study of variation in societal suicide rates is still guided primarily by Durkheim's (1897) theory which proposed a primarily social integration/regulation theory of suicide. There is evidence that social and economic predictors of suicide vary depending upon the particular sub-group - women or men, and young or old. Rates of birth, divorce, marriage, and unemployment were analyzed and compared to rates of suicide from 1965-1985 in Canada and the United States for particular subgroups. In Canada, measures of domestic integration (divorce and birth rates) and the economy (unemployment rate) predicted youth suicide rates more successfully than they did adult suicide rates. In the United States for the same period, there was less variation in the predictors of suicide by age. Further research as well as caution about overgeneralizing the results are warranted., Many nations experienced a rising youth suicide rate during the 1970s and 1980s (Lester, 1988). This was especially true for Canada where the suicide rate for youth rose to become [...]

WE THANK PROFESSOR LIPSET for his comments on our article in the last issue of The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, and we welcome the opportunity to respond. Because [...]

'DEFINING MOMENTS AND RECURRING MYTHS' is the most recent response, mainly by Canadians, to my efforts to describe and analyze differences, as well as similarities, between Canada and the United [...]