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Biennial International Seminar on the Teaching of Psychological Science
The 2nd Biennial International Seminar on the Teaching of Psychological Science (BISTOPS) will take place on 13 - 17 July, 2020 in Paris at Maison Suger, at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme - Maison Suger’s residential and working facility located at 16-18 rue Suger, in the Latin quarter. The seminar will accommodate about 20 participants who have experience in conducting and publishing research on teaching psychology and in successful grant-writing, as well as those who are developing ideas for such research, or have a strong interest in doing so.
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Misperceptions About Racial Wealth Gap Examined in New Report
Yale University researchers explore the psychological processes that explain why the vast majority of Americans underestimate the magnitude of economic inequality between Whites and racial minorities.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring mechanisms underlying attention-bias modification, effects of recall and memory disjointedness on trauma symptoms, and eating disorder pathology among those with food insecurity.
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Newest iPhones Draw Attention to Research on Fear of Holes
The camera features on the newly unveiled iPhone models have drawn attention to a phobia that two psychological scientists have studied in depth.
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Emotions: Separating Fact from Fiction
Accumulating scientific evidence about emotion defies common sense, suggesting common beliefs about emotions have been in error for over 2,000 years. We’ll dispel three widespread fictions about emotions that lurk in classrooms, boardrooms, and bedrooms around the world. We’ll then explore a radically new scientific understanding of what emotions are and how they work.
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No Bones about It: People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”
Do humans learn the same way as computers? Cognitive psychologists have debated this question for decades, but in the past few years the remarkable accomplishments of deep-learning computer systems have fanned the flames, particularly among researchers who study object recognition. Humans effortlessly know that a tree is a tree and a dog is a dog no matter the size, color or angle at which they’re viewed. In fact, identifying such visual elements is one of the earliest tasks children learn. But researchers have struggled to determine how the brain does this simple evaluation.
