This study examined whether a parent ''friending'' his/her child on Facebook.com influenced the parent-child relationship and perceptions of parental privacy invasions. One hundred and eighteen parent-young adult child dyads were randomly assigned to an experimental group where the parent was asked to create a Facebook account, ''friend'' his/her child, and use the account over 2 months or a control group where the parent did not have a Facebook account. Having a parent on Facebook did not result in perceptions of greater privacy invasions, but was associated with decreased conflict in the parent-child relationship. When the parent and child had a more conflicted relationship prior to the parent joining Facebook, the parent's presence on Facebook also enhanced the child's closeness with the parent.

The Journal of Language and Social Psychology has been publishing articles for 30 years. In this article, three different kinds of analyses (viz., content codings, word clouds, and a textual procedure) examining trends over and between the three decades are reported. Drawing on these, future directions for the journal and the field in general are anticipated and proposed. Keywords social psychology of language, textual analysis, word clouds At this point in time and given the journal's substantive history, we felt it important to take stock of what patterns and trends that have emerged over the 30-year history of the journal, and with a view to identifying directions for the next decade and beyond. Toward that end, three different kinds of analyses of the past 30 years' of JLSP's content were undertaken. In the sections that follow, we present the results and discuss their implications for JLSP and for the field of language and social psychology more broadly.

The life of adolescent refugees has been described as uncertainty laden. Yet no quantitative data exist to elucidate that experience of uncertainty, investigate its implications in that population, or explore potential moderators. This study applies the Entropy Model of Uncertainty (Hirsh, Mar, & Peterson, 2012) and the stress-buffering hypothesis (for review, see Hegelson, 2003) to examine the experience of uncertainty among adolescent Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon. It then tests the role of mothers' uncertainty-related communication for adolescent hopelessness. One hundred and sixty-two adolescents across 2 refugee camps in Lebanon participated in the study. Results support the existence of elevated levels of uncertainty about both personal and macrosecurity, show an association between uncertainty regarding personal security and levels of hopelessness, and suggest that uncertainty's negative impact may overwhelm the role of mothers' supportive communication as a buffer against hopelessness. Interestingly, the data also suggest surprisingly little hopelessness in this population.

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For faculty, making the move to e-learning may present a triple challenge of (a) designing and developing engaging e-learning experiences that are also (b) accessible to students with disabilities, as well as (c) the challenge of teaching students HOW to learn in these new environments due to the various learning styles.  This presentation will review these challenges and give possible solutions using Universal Design.