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Nordic Psychology, 2017 Vol. 69, No. 4, 215–216, https://doi.org/10.1080/19012276.2017.1383757 EDITORIAL This issue of Nordic Psychology includes a number of articles that will help you to keep warm in this cold winter. “Decision-making opportunities at school moderate the effects of positive youth development on civic behaviors” by Sanna Roos and Leena Haanpää is the first paper of this issue. In the paper, they research Positive Youth Development in relation to youth civic behav- iors among a total of 7656 Finnish sixth and ninth graders. In their article, the assets of pos- itive global self-esteem, societal interests, competence orientation, connectedness with peers and family, and caring for school were expected to be positively related to adolescents’ civic behaviors, but the opportunities to participate in decision-making at school were hypothesized to moderate these links. As hypothesized, Sanna Roos and Leena Haanpää show in their article that the opportunities for decision-making at school decreased the effects of global self-esteem and future orientation on adolescents’ civic behaviors and strengthened the positive influence of connectedness with peers. “The Perception of the Poor: Capturing Stereotype Content with different Measures” by Anna Lindqvist, Fredrik Björklund, and Martin Bäckström is the second article of this issue. The article