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Strengthening Psychological Science with Specialized Statistical Review
Focused technical assessments by statistical experts could help psychology journals defend against the improper use of statistics.
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Society for the Study of Human Development 2019 Conference
The Society for the Study of Human Development's 11th Biennial Meeting, Stress, Resilience, and Character Development Across the Life Span, will be held October 11 to 13, 2019 at the Benson Hotel, in Portland, Oregon. More information is available on the SSHD website.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring perceived weight discrimination and physiological dysregulation, fear conditioning, motor-memory consolidation, and infants’ learning to reach to the self.
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Weaknesses in Emotion-Expression Research Outlined in New Report
Software that purportedly reads emotions in faces is being deployed or tested for surveillance, hiring, market research, and more. But a report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest finds that facial movements are an inexact gauge of a person’s feelings, behaviors or intentions.
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Your Spending Data May Reveal Aspects of Your Personality
Analyses of financial data from more than 2,000 people show that spending in certain categories signals personality traits.
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How to hold your head if you want to look intimidating
So often, when we go about holding our heads upon our necks, we fail to consider how our posture is communicating our professional ambition—nay, our superiority. Big mistake! With that kind of attitude, how are we supposed to make our colleagues—or as powerful people like to think of them, “future minions”—scurry away in awe and fear? Thankfully, a new study, published in the June 2019 issue of the journal Psychological Science, is here to tell us how to hold our heads more intimidatingly. Sort of a “no-makeup makeup” technique for getting people to do your bidding, if you will.
